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The Story of the Clubs 

Including a Particular Account, with Portrait 
Illustrations, of the National League of Repub- 
lican Clubs, the Pennsylvania State League 
of Republican Clubs, the Allied Republican 
Clubs of Philadelphia, and the Famous ** ^ 

Union Republican Club of Philadelphia 

TOGETHER WITH 

The Story of the Republican Party 

ITS PLATFORMS AND VICTORIES 

Analysis of the Votes for Presidential Can- 
didates ; Account of Republican Conven- 
tions ; Call for the Convention of 1904, and 
Important Letters and Speeches Bearing 
Upon the Coming Campaign <£ <z* <£ <£ 



Compiled by ADDISON B. „BUR&.'. :.. J 

Under the Direction of the Publication Committee of the Union Republican Club 



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The President of the United States 



On the twelfth of December, 1903, the day following the meeting of 
the National Republican Committee in Washington, President Roosevelt 
entertained the officers of the National Republican League at luncheon at 
the White House. 

In the course of his remarks on that occasion, the President said: 
"Money cannot buy the kind of work the League is doing. It arouses 
young men to important public service. I heartily approve of the League 
and its mission." 




The Late Marcus A. Hanna 

A special committee of the National Republican League appeared by 
appointment before the Republican National Committee at Washington, 
December u, 1903, and through its President, Mr. Moore, presented its 
greetings and assurances of co-operation in the forthcoming campaign. 
In reply the National Chairman, Senator Hanna, said: 
"I commend this League of Republican Clubs to the National Com- 
mittee and to those who are to manage the campaign next year. I know 
the work of the League and its value."' 



Introduction 



Those who enjoy prosperity give little heed to the foundation 
upon which it is built. If a laboring man finds a union beneficial to 
his welfare he supports it. When an employer seeks protection he 
looks to association. Through their respective organizations they 
make known their requirements, and, according as the organization 
is weak or strong, they win or lose. When a man joins a union he 
hopes to improve his condition. He pays dues for the support of 
the union and the maintenance of its principles. If he stops the 
union goes to smash and menaces the permanency of his own success. 
And so, also, the employer loses his grip by letting his association go 
out of business. 

Political organization is broader than that of capital or labor. 
It stands for the success or retardation of both. The experience of 
the last decade and a-half demonstrated the advantages and demerits 
of the two great political parties. We had two Democratic adminis- 
trations, each of them depressing the business and laboring interests 
of the country; and we had two Republican administrations, each 
establishing confidence and restoring commercial and industrial 
activity. We are going to vote this year for one or the other of these 
conditions. 

As we view the situation to-day it is hard to imagine how any 
sane man — familiar with the progress the country has made under 
Republican doctrine — could want to vote to restore the demoralizing- 
influences of Democracy. And yet there is danger that hundreds of 
thousands of sane men, for lack of information, for want of agitation 
and organization, may pursue that course. The subtle agents of 



Democracy, of Socialism, of unrest, are stealthily. at work: like the 
industrious muskrat. they are cutting away the dam which holds the 
bountifully-laden waters of prosperity and are preparing to inundate 
the fertile valleys below with wreckage and disaster. Here and there 
on the placid surface above the dam are argosies of the grasping and 
ungrateful ; now and again they are sailing dangerously close to the 
limit of safety, but they are mere derelicts in the great volume of 
legitimate commerce that stands for the activity and well-being of our 
people. 

How are commerce and industry to be protected? By tearing 
away the dam and accepting the apologies of the Democratic pessi- 
mists, or by driving away the rats and keeping Republicans on 
guard ? 

The National Republican League stands for Republican princi- 
ples. It believes the Republican party to be better in policy and 
performance than the Democratic party ; better for commerce ; better 
for manufactures; better for mining; better for the workingman. 
It stands with its face bravely set against the conditions which 
destroyed the industries of the country under Democratic manage- 
ment. It stands against the return of soup houses and idleness. 

Manufacturers, workingmen, whether miners or mechanics, are 
interested in Protective legislation. Commercial confidence is 
essential to the successful employment of capital and labor. Quar- 
rels in the mines or quarrels in the mills do not alter the general 
result. We must have good national laws, and confidence in them, 
to maintain our general advance. In his local environment the 
employer forgets and so does the workman, the general issue. The 
tendency to criticise and find fault increases with the growth of 
special contentions. As industries thrive abuses develop. But who 
would destroy a noble system to punish recreants among the 
worthies? There is a better way to weed them out. The Republi- 
can party legislates for all. It helps all, and if there be any who 
abuse its bounty the law takes his measure. 

Believing in Republican policy and the wisdom of Republican 
legislation, the National League sounds the tocsin of 1904. It calls 
upon the farmer, the miner and the mechanic, to compare the per- 



formances of the two parties during- the past decade and say 
whether Republicanism or Democracy has best served the plain 
people ; it calls upon the manufacturer and employer to say whether 
confidence is best maintained under Democratic or Republican rule. 
The League calls upon thinking people to lay aside their local differ- 
ences and lend their energies in the contest of 1904, to the continu- 
ance of the general conditions which distinguish the administrations 
of McKinley and Roosevelt. 

The League is the army of the volunteer in the cause of national 
progress. It sounds a warning of apathy, and proclaims the need 
of organization. It deserves the attention and encouragement of the 
well-wishers of the nation. 

This book is simply intended to furnish facts and figures empha- 
sizing the value of organization and to provide ammunition to the 
clubs for the campaign of 1904. 




M^fa^h^4iy 




Story of the Clubs 



'/Rational IRepublican Xeaoue 

IPresibent Secretary 

J. HAMPTON MOORE ELBERT W. WEEKS 

Philadelphia, Pa. Guthrie Centre, Iowa 

H)fce=lpreeibent treasurer 

JAMES JAY SHERIDAN SID B. REDDING 

Chicago, 111. Little Rock, Ark. 

president's IHeafcquarters 

Union Republican Club, 227 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The National Republican League is the outcome of a meeting 
of representatives of Republican Clubs of the United States held in 
Chickering Hall, New York City, December 15th, 1887. At the 
time of its formation the spirit of James G. Blaine permeated the 
ranks of Republicans and the fighting blood of young Republicanism 
was everywhere aroused. It was proposed to strengthen the 
Republican organization by Interesting young men in politics, espe- 
cially first voters and independents. The constitution adopted by 
the first Convention thus defined the purposes of the new organiza- 
tion: 

"The objects of the League are to encourage and assist in the 
formation of permanent Republican Clubs and State Leagues, to 
unite such clubs and leagues for effective and organized work, and 
generally to advance the principles of the Republican party." 

Three words, more than all others, described the necessity of 
the hour and have since continued to animate the work of the League 
— agitation, education, organisation. 

It was understood in the beginning, and has continued to be 
understood to this time, that the League was to advocate, promote 
and maintain Republican party principles and not to originate or 
promote candidates for office in advance of the action of the regular 
party conventions. The plan met with instant approval on the part 
of the national leaders and was generally accepted by the leaders of 
the States and Territories. 

Since the Chickering Hall meeting the work of League organi- 
aztion has been going on, the doors of the general offices being open 



10 . REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

upon every working day for the dissemination of information or the 
promotion of organization. 

In national campaigns the League has been of great service and 
in Congressional elections it has been useful, vigilant and effective. 

At first the national conventions of the League were held 
annually, but inasmuch as those who represented the various clubs 
were volunteers engaged in party service at their own expense and 
for other reasons deemed sufficient, it was decided, in 1898, to substi- 
tute biennial for annual conventions. 

Since the convention at Chickering Hall in 1887, national con- 
ventions of the League have been held as follows : 

February 28, 1889, Baltimore, Md. June 19, 1895, Cleveland, Ohio. 

March 4, 1890, Nashville, Tenn. August 25, 1896, Milwaukee, Wis. 

April 23, 1891, Cincinnati, Ohio. July 15, 1897, Detroit, Mich. 

September 16, 1892, Buffalo, N. Y. July 13, 1898, Omaha, Neb. 

May 10, 1893, Louisville, Ky. July 16, 1900, St. Paul, Minn. 

June 26, 1894, Denver, Colo. October 2-3, 1902, Chicago, 111. 

At each of these conventions distinguished party men have been 
participants in the proceedings and have given expression to utter- 
ances that have provided important material for ensuing campaigns. 
Men who have risen to the Presidency, notably McKinley and Roose- 
velt, have been guests and active supporters of League work; in 
fact, it is claimed that the idea of amalgamating the clubs of the State 
for active party service originated in Ohio in the interest of Major 
McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, 
made his famous address at the St. Paul Convention of the League 
prior to the National Convention in Philadelphia which nominated 
McKinley for President and Roosevelt for Vice President. 

So important has the work of the League been in its relation to 
the regular Republican organization that the Presidency of the 
League attracted candidates of national celebrity. One of the lead- 
ing men who has been the head of the League was Hon. John M. 
Thurston, of Nebraska, afterwards United States Senator. James 
S. Clarkson, of Iowa, Assistant Postmaster- General and for many 
years one of the most conspicuous managers of national campaigns, 
also served in a similar capacity. 

The first President was Hon. James P. Foster, of New York 
City, elected at the celebrated Chickering Hall meeting, December, 
1887. 

Senator John M. Thurston, the second President, was elected in 
Baltimore, 1889. Then came General Clarkson, and after him Hon. 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 11 



William W. Tracy, of Chicago. General Edwin A. McAlpin, a 
prominent New Yorker, next assumed office, and following him came 
D. D. Woodmansee, a distinguished lawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
warm friend of President McKinley. Hon. George Stone, of San 
Francisco, Chairman of the Republican State Committee and Adju- 
tant-General of California, then assumed the office, and gave way at 
St. Paul, in 1900, to Senator Isaac Miller Hamilton, of Chicago, who 
remained in control until the last biennial Convention, Chicago, 1902. 

One of the earliest and most aggressive League men was 
Andrew B. Humphrey, of New York City, First Secretary of the 
League, who served in that capacity from 1887 to 1895. Mr. 
Humphrey conducted the first eight annual conventions of the organ- 
ization and had much to do with shaping its policy. 

With the approach of the national contest of 1904, the National 
League again assumes an important position in political affairs. The 
last Convention, held in Chicago in October, 1902, elected as Presi- 
dent, J. Hampton Moore, City Treasurer of Philadelphia, who had 
been active in club circles in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, with 
James J. Sheridan, President of the famous Hamilton Club, of 
Chicago, as Vice President ; Elbert W. W^eeks, of Guthrie Centre, 
recently elected a member of the Legislature of Iowa, Secretary, and 
Sid. B. Redding, of little Rock, Arkansas, President of the Arkansas 
State League. Treasurer. 

During the past year the officers of the League have been pre- 
paring the way for energetic work in 1904. At the Executive Com- 
mittee meeting, held in Chicago, October, 1903, a definite course of 
action was mapped out. W /T hen the Republican National Committee 
assembled in Washington, December nth, 1903, a special committee 
of the National League appeared before that body and pledged its 
support and co-operation, receiving the approval of Senator Hanna, 
Chairman, and subsequently of President Roosevelt at the White 
House, who* especially received the committee. 

The work of the National League is best understood by reading 
its brief constitution, which is presented herewith, together with a 
short form for the organization of Republican Clubs. 

Under this system clubs are being organized in all of the States 
and Territories and are constantly reporting for enrollment at 
National League Headquarters. 



12 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

CONSTITUTION 

OF 

The National Republican League 

OF THE UNITED STATES 



Adopted by the National Convention of Republican Clubs, in Chickering 
Hall, December 15, 16 and 17, 1887, and Amended by the Executive 
Committee at Saratoga, August 14, 1889, by Authority of the Na- 
tional League Convention at Baltimore March 1, 1889, and Amended 
by the National League Convention held at St. Paul on July 16, 17 
and 18, 1900. 

I. 

The name of this organization shall be "The National Republican 
League of the United States." 

II. 

The League shall consist of the State and Territorial Leagues, which 
may be duly admitted, as hereinafter provided. 

III. 

The objects of the League are to encourage and assist in the forma- 
tion of permanent Republican Clubs and State Leagues, to unite such clubs 
and leagues for effective and organized work, and generally to advance 
the principles of the Republican party. 

IV. 

The officers of this League shall be a President and a Vice-President 
at large, a Vice-President from each State and Territorial organization in 
the League, a Secretary and Treasurer, all of whom shall be elected at the 
Convention of the League and shall hold office until the election of their 
successors. The President shall preside at all Conventions of the League 
and meetings of the Executive Committee. In the absence of the Presi- 
dent, the Vice-President at large shall perform all the duties of the Presi- 
dent, and in case of vacancy occurring in the office of the President, the 
Vice-President at large shall become President until his successor is duly 
elected; if the Vice-President at large shall not be present, the Executive 
Committee may select some one from the States or Territorial Vice Presi- 
dents to discharge the duties of the President. 

V. 

Any permanently organized State or Territorial League shall be eli- 
gible to membership in this League. 

VI. 

The National Convention shall be composed of six delegates at large 
from each State organization in the League and four delegates from each 
Congressional district in which there shall be one or more Republican 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 13 



League clubs, together with the President and the Secretary of each State 
League and all officers of the national organization, who shall he exl- 
officio delegates. There shall also be apportioned to each State and Terri- 
tory a number of life members equivalent to their respective representation 
in Congress; such life memberships will entitle the holders thereof to a 
seat and a vote in each Convention of the National Republican League 
actually attended by him, but he may not be represented by proxy. Appli- 
cations for such memberships should be made to the President and Sec- 
retary of the National Republican League, and certificates will be issued 
by said President and Secretary by and with the approval of the member 
of the Executive Committee from the State or Territory in which the ap- 
plicant resides, and upon contribution of not less than $25 to the National 
Republican League. 

VII. 

The Conventions of the League shall be held bi-annually at such time 
and place as may be designated by the Executive Committee. Notice of 
the time and place of such Convention shall be given in writing by the 
Secretary to all organizations in the League at least sixty days prior to 
the day thereof. 

VIII. 

The Convention shall be the sole judge of the qualifications of its 
own members, and shall have power to admit and expel organizations, to 
overrule the action of the Executive Committee and to levy an assessment 
on the several organizations composing the League. 

IX. 

There shall be an Executive Committee composed of one member 
from each State organization who shall be elected by the delegates from 
such organization present at the Convention. The President, Secretary 
and Treasurer of the League shall be ex-officio members of the committee. 
The committee shall have power to fill all vacancies in its own number or 
in any of the offices. 



The Executive Committee shall have the general management of the 
affairs of the League when the Convention is not in session, and shall have 
the control of all funds of the League, subject to the direction of the Con- 
vention. It shall have general supervision of the organizations composing 
the League, and shall, in States which have no State League, be charged 
with the duty of organizing new clubs, and City, County and State Leagues, 
wherever in its opinion advisable. The committee ihall be called together 
by the President of the League immediately after the Convention, and then 
shall organize. The Executive Committee shall appoint from its own num- 
ber a Financial Committee, an Auditing Committee, and a Purchasing and 
Disbursing Committee, each of which shall consist of three members. The 
Executive Committee shall make its own rules and shall hold meetings 
at such times and places as it shall determine. A meeting may be called 
at any time by its chairman, and must be called by him when requested by 
ten members in writing. 

XI. 

The duties of the officers shall be regulated by the Executive Commit- 
tee. The Secretary shall be subject to the orders of the Executive Com- 
mittee. He shall have charge of the headquarters of the League, and shall 



14 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 



receive such compensation as the committee may determine upon. The 
Treasurer shall be required to give bonds in such an amount as the com- 
mittee may determine. The committee may remove any of its officers for 
cause, by a vote of a majority of all its members. 

J 
XII. 

One League from each State or Territory may be admitted to mem- 
bership in this League upon its own application in writing, by the Execu- 
tive Committee. 

XIII. 

It shall be the duty of the officers of each State, Territorial League 
and the American College League to call a convention at least once in two 
years for the purpose of electing officers and delegates to the next National 
League Convention, and transact such other business as may properly 
come before the Convention. 

It shall be the duties of the Secretaries of the State and Territorial 
Leagues and the American College League to furnish to the National Sec- 
retary a true and complete list of all clubs belonging to and affiliating with 
said League on or before the first day of June each year; the first list 
or roster to be furnished within thirty days after the National League Con- 
vention in 1900. 

XIV. 

The only persons authorized to solicit and receive funds for the Na- 
tional Republican League are the President, Secretary, Treasurer, and 
members of the Finance Committee, and such other persons who may from 
time to time be designated by the Finance Committee. 

XV. 

This League shall not in any manner endeavor to influence the action 
of any National, State, County or Municipal Convention; nor shall it indi- 
cate, as a League, any preference for any candidate before any political 
convention; nor shall it, as a League, recommend any person as an appli- 
cant for any (political) official position. 

This Constitution may be amended at any Convention by a majority 
vote of the organizations present but sixty days'notice in writing of any 
proposed amendment shall be given by the Secretary to each organization 
in the League. 



Short Form of Constitution for Local Clubs 



of 



ARTICLE I. 

NAME. 

The name of this Club shall be The Republican Club 

ARTICLE II. 

OBJECTS. 

The objects of this Club shall be to advocate, maintain and promote 
the principles of Republicanism; to direct and interest in politics those who 
have hitherto been more or less indifferent to their political duties: to en- 
courage attendance at primary meetings, in order that honest and capable 
men may be nominated and elected; to guard and defend the purity of the 




MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY 

UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM PENNSYLVAN1 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 15 



election laws; to work in harmony with and to carry out the plan of per- 
manent Republican Club organizations; and to perform such other work as 
may best conserve the interests of the party, National, State and locally, 
thereby exerting the most potent influence for good government. 

ARTICLE III. 

ENDORSEMENT OF CANDIDATES. 

This Club shall not be used in any way to further the interests of any 
candidate for office previous to nomination, but shall reserve its force to 
be exerted in behalf of all candidates nominated by Republican Conven- 
tions. 

ARTICLE IV. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Any person over 18 years of age, who is a Republican and in sym- 
pathy with the principles of the Republican party and a supporter of its 
candidates shall be eligible to membership in this Club. 

ARTICLE V. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of this Club shall be a President, Vice-President, Sec- 
retary, Treasurer and Executive Committee of five, and President and 
Secretary, ex-officio. All officers shall be members of the Club, and shall 
be elected by ballot at such time as may be prescribed in the by-laws. 

ARTICLE VI. 

MEETINGS, QUORUMS, ETC 

Sec. I. The regular meeting of this Club shall be held at 

on the . 

Sec. 2. Five members shall constitute a quorum 'at any regular or 
duly called special meeting of the Club. 

ARTICLE VII. 

BY-LAWS, RESOLUTIONS, AMENDMENTS, ETC. 

Sec. I. All by-laws and resolutions of this Club shall require a ma- 
jority vote of the members at any regular meeting for their adoption. 

Sec. 2. Amendments to this constitution shall only be made upon 
previous notice of two weeks in writing and shall require for their adop- 
tion an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present at a regu- 
lar meeting. 



CALL FOR A REPUBLICAN CLUB 

We, the undersigned, Republicans of , believing in the prin- 
ciples of Republicanism and that the party's interest can be advanced by 
the organization of a Republican Club in this locality hereby enroll our- 
selves for that purpose, and agree to attend a meeting at on 

the day of , 190 — , for perfecting an organization. 



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The California Plan 



San Francisco, December 10, IQ04. 
Hon J. Hampton Moore, 

President National Republican League, 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Dear Sir : At the recent meeting of the Executive Committee, 
held in Chicago, some inquiries were made concerning the best 
method of organizing clubs. I beg to submit a plan pursued in 
California which was very effective. 

In the campaign of 1900, I was Chairman of the Republican 
State Committee, and, with the desire of improving the League 
organizations in the State, secured the services of two of our brightest 
young men, who were also good speakers, sending them throughout 
the State to organize clubs and also to visit existing clubs, urging 
them to prepare for the campaign. The local newspapers were freely 
used to advertise meetings and announcements from day to day, stat- 
ing that meetings would be held on given dates at given towns for the 
purpose of forming a Republican Club and inviting Republicans to 
attend, especially the young men and first voters. At each of these 
meetings one of our organizers was present and addressed the gath- 
ering upon the issues of the coming campaign, and also explaining 
the club plans. Being prepared with blanks for the purpose, he 
would proceed to enroll those present, and before the meeting 
adjourned a complete organization was perfected, including election 
of officers. Care should be used in selecting officers of clubs, and 
preferably energetic and enthusiastic young men chosen. The or- 
ganizer then filled a blank, with which he was provided, giving the 
name of the club, the names of officers and members, sent it to the 
State Committee Headquarters and proceeded to the next town to 
attend another meeting. This work was continued until the State 
was thoroughly organized, and when the actual work of the cam- 
paign began the State Committee had a roster of all Republican clubs 
in the State, and political meetings of the party were held under the 
auspices of these clubs. In the city of San Francisco a club was 
formed in each Assembly district, and these have since maintained 
their organization and now practically control the party politics in 
their several districts. 




BOIES PENROSE 

UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM PENNSYLVANIA 
LIFE MEM.BER UNION REPUBLICAN CLUB 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 17 



I strongly recommend this plan to League officers, believing it 
to be the most effective. The organizer, if fitted for the work, will 
not fail to be well and favorably known to the party leaders and also 
secure of advancement. One of my organizers is now Assistant 
United States Attorney and the other Secretary of the Railroad Com- 
mission in this State. I make the emphatic declaration that the 
League organization in California is one of vast importance to the 
Republican party and a live factor in determining party politics; 
always subservient to the regular party organization, and ready at a 
word from the leaders to fight for party success and principles, and 
this I regard the only way that our League of clubs can accomplish 
the greatest good. 

Very truly yours, 

Geo. Stone, 
Former President National Republican League. 



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REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 



PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEAGUE 
OF REPUBLICAN CLUBS 



Vice-Presidents: 

John Mecleary, Philadelphia 
Alex. T. Connell, Scranton 
William I. Swoope, Clearfield 
John O. Sheatz, Philadelphia 
Robert H. Lindsay, Pittsburg 
L. N. Hammerling, Wilkes-Barre 
Joseph Call, Philadelphia 
Clark Olds, Erie 



President: 

JOHN R, WIGGINS 

Philadelphia 

Corresponding Secretary: 

John Kelley, Philadelphia 

Assistants: 

Joseph T. Taylor, Philadelphia 
Frank J. Klumpf, Pittsburg 



Recording Secretary: 
Geo. J. Llewellyn, Wilkes-Barre 

Assistant: 
John R. Long, Philadelphia 

Treasurer: 

Jere H. Shaw, Philadelphia 

Stenographer: 

Wm. C. T. Bauerle 



The Pennsylvania State League of Republican Clubs grew out 
of the meeting held in Chickering Hall, New York, when the Na- 
tional League was organized. In April of the following year (1888) 
Colonel A. Loudon Snow den, Edwin S. Stuart, afterwards Mayor 
of Philadelphia; Charles F. Warwick, also elected Mayor; Charles 
Emory Smith, subsequently Postmaster General; Stalte Senator 
Christopher L. Magee; Recorder of Deeds George von Bonnhurst, 
of Pittsburg; L. A. Watres, afterwards Lieutenant Governor, and 
Major Everett Warren, issued a call for a convention at Lancaster. 
A number of clubs responded by sending delegates, who organized 
the State League, with Edwin S. Stuart, of Philadelphia, as Presi- 
dent. The Vice Presidents were : Major Everett Warren, John B. 
Robinson and Burr W. Mcintosh. The latter distinguished himself 
in various ways, first as a reporter of the Press, then as an actor and 
later as a soldier, during the Spanish- American war. H. T. Fair- 
lamb was elected Secretary and William Thornton Treasurer; head- 
quarters were established in Philadelphia, and new clubs were 
organized throughout the State, the League taking an active part in 
the campaign, resulting in the election of Harrison and Morton. 

At the second convention, held in Pittsburg, in 1889, Hon. 
Edwin S. Stuart was re-elected President, and he was again re- 
elected at the third convention, which met in Philadelphia, in 1890, 
and was addressed by United States Senator John M. Thurston, of 
Nebraska; Congressman Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, and Congress- 
man John P. Dolliver, of Iowa. 

At the fourth convention, held in Scranton, in 1891, there was 
a spirited contest for the Presidency between Congressman John B. 




J. HAMPTON MOORE 

PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE 
LIFE MEMBER UNION REPUBLICAN CLUB 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 19 



Robinson, of Media, and John Dalzell, of Pittsburg, Mr. Robinson 
being ultimately elected unanimously, on motion of Mr. Dalzell. 
Mr. Robinson was re-elected in 1892, the convention being held in 
Williamsport and a prize banner was awarded to the Young Men's 
Tariff Club, of Pittsburg, for making the finest appearance at the 
National League Convention at Buffalo. Congressman Robinson 
was again re-elected in 1893, when the sixth convention was held at 
Reading. In the parade of clubs the Anti-Cobden Club, of Phila- 
delphia, carried off the prize banner, the West Chester Pioneer 
Club winning second honors. 

Major Everett Warren was elected President at the seventh con- 
vention, held at Harrisburg, in 1894, and the work of the League 
was shown in the tremendous majority given to Governor Hastings 
in the election of that year. 

The eighth convention, held at York, in 1895, re-elected Major 
Warren as President and put in line of promotion as Vice Presidents 
J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, and Isador Sobel, of Erie. 

The ninth convention met in Erie, in 1896, and elected Mr. Sobel 
President. He was re-elected at the tenth convention, which met at 
Williamsport, in 1897. ^ n l &9& tne eleventh convention was held, 
in Pittsburg, and a representative club worker of that city, Magis- 
trate Archibald Mackrell, was chosen President. The twelfth con- 
vention met at Harrisburg, in 1899, and elected J. Hampton Moore 
President. 

At the Harrisburg Convention so little interest was manifested in 
the affairs of the League that many predicted its early disappearance 
from the scene of political activity. Under the vigorous administra- 
tion of the new President, however, the condition of the organization 
soon began to show marked improvement, both numerically and 
financially. 

The thirteenth annual convention was held at the Walnut Street 
Theatre, in the city of Philadelphia, and was followed by one of the 
most remarkable banquets, at Belmont Mansion, ever given in this 
State. Mr. Moore was re-elected President. 

At the fourteenth convention, held at Scranton, in 1900, he re- 
tired in favor of Mr. Frederic W. Fleitz, Deputy Attorney General of 
the Commonwealth, under the happiest auspices. Mr. Fleitz took 
active charge of the League and brought its business up to the 
fifteenth annual convention, held in the city of Erie, in October, 1901, 
where it opened the gubernatorial campaign. Mr. Fleitz was re- 
elected at Erie and retired at the sixteenth annual convention, held 
in the city of Wilkes-Barre, in favor of Mr. John R. Wiggins, of 
Philadelphia. The Wilkes-Barre Convention was remarkable for 



20 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

the interest displayed by the active leaders of the State and its pro- 
ceedings were so acceptable as to be published as a campaign docu- 
ment. 

Under the leadership of Mr. Wiggins the State League is now 
rapidly enrolling new members, in anticipation of work to be done in 
the Presidential campaign of 1904. 

ROSTER 

State League of Republican Clubs 

PENNSYLVANIA 

ALLEGHENY COUNTY 

C. L. MAGEE CLUB, Pittsburgh. ALEX. HAMILTON CLUB, Allegheny 
GERMAN REP. LINCOLN CLUB, City. 

Pittsburgh. SUPERIOR CLUB, Allegheny City. 

GARFIELD CLUB, Pittsburgh. 13TH WARD CLUB, Allegheny City. 

U. S. GRANT CLUB, Pittsburgh. CRESCENT CLUB, Allegheny City. 

THIRD LEG. DIST. CLUB, Pittsburgh. AMERICUS CLUB, Allegheny City. 

HOME MARKET CLUB, Pittsburgh. J. G. ANDERSON CLUB, N. Braddock. 

MORRIS W. MEAD CLUB, Pittsburgh, JOS. REDFERN CLUB, \\ ilmerding. 

21ST WARD CLUB, Pittsburgh. McKEESPORT CLUB, McKeesport. 

JAS. BLACKBURN CLUB, Pittsburgh. HOMESTEAD CLUB, Homestead. 

ALDERMAN McGAREY CLUB, Pitts- SHARPSBURG CLUB, Sharpsburg. 

burgh. GRANT CLUB, Mt. Olivet. 

28TH WARD CLUB, Pittsburgh. ALLEGHENY CLUB, 818 Liberty St., 
31ST WARD CLUB, Pittsburgh. Allegheny. 

JOHN DALZELL CLUB, Pittsburgh. \VM. FLYNN CLUB, Pittsburgh. 

HOSACK CLUB, Pittsburgh. NINTH WARD CLUB, Pittsburgh. 

FIRST WARD CLUB, Pittsburgh. CRAFTON CLUB, Crafton. 

JOHN MORAN CLUB, Pittsburgh. T. W. FORD CLUB, Etna. 

FIDELITY CLUB, Pittsburgh. E. G. HUSLER CLUB, Carnegie. 

MAJ. E. A. MONTOOTH CLUB, Pitts- A. J. BARCHFIELD CLUB, Pittsburgh. 

burgh. EIGHTH WARD CLUB, Pittsburgh. 

YOUNG MEN'S TARIFF CLUB, Pitts- WEST END CLUB, Pittsburgh. 

burgh. J. B. HAMILTON CLUB, Elizabeth. 

COL. WM. A. STONE CLUB, Bellevue. 16TH WARD CLUB, Pittsburgh. 

FORD AND KIRKER CLUB, Bellevue. ADOLPH EDLIS CLUB, Pittsburgh. 

MONROE CLUB, Bellevue. 24TH WARD CLUB, Pittsburgh. 

ARriSTRONG COUNTY 

M. S. QUAY CLUB, Leechburg. 

BEAVER COUNTY 

M. S. QUAY CLUB, Beaver. 

BERKS COUNTY 

NORTHEASTERN REP. LEAGUE. McKINLEY CLUB, Reading. 
Reading. 

BLAIR COUNTY 

KEYSTONE CLUB, Altoona. ELKIN CLUB, Altoona. 




JAMES JAY SHERIDAN 

VICE-PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE 
CHICAGO, ILL. 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 21 



BUCKS COUNTY 

BRISTOL TOWNSHIP CLUB, Bristol. 

CENTRE COUNTY 

PHILLIPSBURG REP. LEAGUE, Phil- A. E. PATTON CLUB, Grassflat. 
lipsburg. 

CHESTER COUNTY 

REPUBLICAN CLUB, Phoenixville. T. L. EYRE CLUB, West Chester. 

YOUNG MEN'S PROGRESSIVE CLUB, W. C. PIONEER CORPS CLUB, West 

Coatesville. Chester. 

WEST CHESTER CLUB, West Chester. CHESTER COUNTY CLUB, West 

ROOSEVELT CLUB, West Grove. Chester. 

CLEARFIELD COUNTY 

CLEARFIELD REP. CLUB, Clearfield. DUBOIS CLUB, Dubois. 

CRAWFORD COUNTY 

TITUSVILLE REP. CLUB, Titusville. COLUMBIA CLUB, Meadville. 

DAUPHIN COUNTY 

M. S. DETWILER CLUB, Harrisburg. HUMMELSTOWN CLUB, Hummels- 

town. 

DELAWARE COUNTY 

YOUNG MEN'S REP. CLUB, Chester. KEYSTONE CLUB, Chester. 

GLENOLDEN CLUB, Glenolden. WAYNE CLUB, Wayne. 

MEDIA REP. CLUB, Media. PROSPECT PARK CLUB, Moores. 

RADNOR REP. CLUB, Wayne. FIFTH WARD CLUB, Chester. 
W. L. MATHUES CLUB, Chester. 

ELK COUNTY 

RIDGWAY REP. CLUB, Ridgway. DAGUS MINES CLUB, Dagus Mines. 

JOHNSONBURG CLUB, Johnsonburg. 

ERIE COUNTY 

THIRD WARD CLUB, Erie. FOURTH WARD CLUB, Erie. 

LINCOLN CLUB, Erie. SECOND WARD CLUB, Erie. 

FIFTH WARD CLUB, Erie. BATES CLUB, Albion. 

GERMAN-AMERICAN CLUB, Erie. CONNEAUT CLUB, Edinboro. 

FORREST COUNTY 

ROOSEVELT REP. CLUB, Tionesta. 

INDIANA COUNTY 

INDIANA REP. LEAGUE, Indiana. 

LACKAWANNA COUNTY 

KEYSTONE REP. CLUB, Scranton. 16TH WARD CLUB, Scranton 

NINTH WARD REP. CLUB, Scranton. NORTH SCRANTON CLUB Scranton 

UNION LEAGUE CLUB, Scranton. SONS OF CAMBRIA CLUB, Scranton 

ROUGH RIDERS' CLUB, Scranton. SUBURBAN CLUB, Scranton. 

LACKAWANNA CO. CLUB, Scranton. SOUTH SIDE CLUB, Scranton 

WEST SIDE CLUB, Scranton. NORTH END CLUB, Scranton. 

LEBANON COUNTY 

CITIZENS' LEAGUE, Lebanon. INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE, N Lebanon 

LINCOLN LEAGUE, Lebanon. 



22 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 



LANCASTER COUNTY 

YOUNG REPUBLICANS' CLUB, Lan- CITIZENS' REP. CLUB, Lancaster, 
caster. 

LAWRENCE COUNTY 

YOUNG MEN'S REP. CLUB, New HON. WM. M. BROWN CLUB, New 

Castle. Castle. 

HON. WM. D. WALLACE CLUB, New 

Castle. 

LEHIGH COUNTY 

UNION REP. CLUB, Hokendauqua. McKINLEY REP. CLUB, N. Bethlehem. 

LUZERNE COUNTY 

WYOMING MONUMENT CLUB, Wy- LUZERNE CO. LEAGUE, Wilkesbarre. 

oming. LINCOLN CLUB, Wilkesbarre. 

YOUNG MEN'S CLUB, Plymouth. MANHATTAN CLUB, Wilkesbarre. 

POLISH CITIZENS' CLUB, Wilkes- WEST PITTSTON CLUB, W. Pittston. 

barre. HUNTINGTON VALLEY CLUB, Hunt- 
CENTRAL REP. LEAGUE, Wilkesbarre. ingdon Mills. 

ROOSEVELT CLUB, Nanticoke. 

LYCOMING COUNTY 

YOUNG MEN'S REP. CLUB, Williams- NEWBERRY CLUB, Newberry. 

port. MOSSER'S TANNERY CLUB, New- 
FIFTH WARD CLUB, Williamsport. berry. 

FOURTH WARD CLUB, Williamsport. PICTURE ROCKS CLUB, Picture Rocks. 

WEST END CLUB, Wiliamsport. 13TH WARD CLUB, Williamsport. 

SOUTH SIDE CLUB, Williamsport. MONTOURSVILLE CLUB, Montours- 
CENTRAL CLUB, Williamsport. , ville. 

CENTRAL COLORED CLUB, Williams- SALLADAYBURG CLUB, Salladayburg. 

port. MUNCY CLUB, Muncy. 

SECOND WARD CLUB, Williamsport. MONTGOMERY CLUB, Montgomery. 

HUGHESVILLE CLUB, Hughesville. THIRD WARD REP. CLUB, S. Will- 
JERSEY SHORE CLUB, Jersey Shore. iamsport. 

McKEAN COUNTY 

BRADFORD CITY REP. CLUB, Brad- SWEDISH REP. CLUB, Bradford. 

ford City. SWEDISH. REP. CLUB, Mt. Jewett. 

SWEDISH REP. CLUB, Kane. SWEDISH REP. CLUB, Pt. Allegheny. 

MERCER COUNTY 

MERCER COUNTY REP. CLUB, Green- YOUNG MEN'S REP. CLUB, Mercer. 

ville. 

MONTGOMERY COUNTY 

YOUNG MEN'S REP. CLUB, Pottstown. GLENSIDE REP. CLUB, Glenside. 

NARBERTH CLUB, Narberth. UNION REP. CLUB, Rockbridge. 

REPUBLICAN INVINCIBLES, Norris- ELKINS REP. CLUB, Elkins. 

town. UNION REP. CLUB, Bala. 

POTTSTOWN WARD WORKERS, BRYN MAWR CLUB, Bryn Mawf. 

Pottstown. 

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY 

WASHINGTON REP. ASSOCIATION, McKINLEY CLUB, Easton. 

S. Bethlehem. LINCOLN CLUB, Bethlehem. 

WASHINGTON CLUB, Hellerstown. NORTHAMPTON CLUB, Easton. 

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTV 

SUNBURY REP. CLUB, Sunbury. BANGOR REP. CLUB, Bangor. 




ELBERT W. WEEKS 

SECRETARY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE 
GUTHRIE CENTRE, IOWA 



STORY Oh' THE CLUBS 



23 



PHILADELPHIA COUNTY 



Ward, 
i— UNION REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
2— ITALIAN UNION CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
YOUNG ITALIAN - AMERICANS, 

Philadelphia. 
MEZZANI AND GARIBALDI 
CLUB, Philadelphia. 
3— JAS. F. MORRISON CLUB, Phila- 
4— FOURTH WARD CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
5-THOS. D. FINLETTER CLUB, Phil- 
adelphia. 
6-SIXTH WARD CLUB, Philadelphia. 
7— CITIZENS' REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
UNITED REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
JAS. L. GOODALL CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
M. S. QUAY CLUB, Philadelphia. 
8— PENROSE CLUB, Philadelphia. 
UNION REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
YOUNG REPUBLICANS, Philadel- 
phia. 
UNION LEAGUE CLUB, Philadel- 
CENTRAL CLUB, Philadelphia, 
phia. 
9-NINTH WARD CLUB, Philadelphia. 

BURLAN CLUB, Philadelphia. 
io-WM. R. LEEDS CLUB, Philadelphia, 
ii— ELEVENTH WARD CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
i2— THEO. B. STULB CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
13— MUTUAL REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
YOUNG MEN'S CLUB, Philadelphia. 
14— UNION REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
15— HARRISON REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
UNION REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
NEPTUNE REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
YOUNG MEN'S REP. CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
i6— BENJ. HARRISON REP. CLUB, 
Philadelphia. 
EDWIN S. STUART CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
JAS. A. GARFIELD CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
17— GERMAN-AMERICAN CLUB, Phil- 
adelphia. 
18— A. C. HARMER CLUB, Philadelphia. 
UNION CLUB, Philadelphia. 
E. S. CRAMP CLUB, Philadelphia, 
delphia. 



Ward. 

19— ANTI-COBDEN CLUB, Philadelphia. 
NINETEENTH WARD REP. CLUB, 

Philadelphia. 
WORKINGMEN'S PROTECTIVE 
TARIFF LEAGUE, Philadelphia. 
20— YOUNG MEN'S CLUB, Philadelphia. 
TWENTIETH WARD REP. CLUB, 

Philadelphia. 
FIDELITY CLUB, Philadelphia. 
21-TWENTY-FIRST WARD CLUB, 

Philadelphia. 
22— GERMANTOWN REP. CLUB, Phil- 
adelphia. 
YOUNG REPUBLICANS' CLUB, 
Philadelphia. 
23— TWENTY-THIBD WARD CLUB, 

Philadelphia. 
24— HAMILTON REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
PARKSIDE REP, CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. , 
LINCOLN REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
25— UNITED REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
EAST END REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
YOUNG REPUBLICANS' CLUB, 

Philadelphia. 
YOUNG MEN'S REP. CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
FRED. M. WAGNER CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
INDEPENDENT CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
26— EAST END CLUB, Philadelphia. 

TWENTY-SIXTH WARD CLUB, 

Philadelphia. 
ARTHUR MORROW CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
27— WEST PHILA. REP. CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
28— UNION REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
CENTRAL REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
WEST END REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
29— CONTINENTAL REP. CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
OXFORD REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
WEST END REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
TWENTIETH CENTURY REP. 
CLUB, Philadelphia. 
30-THIRTIETH WARD YOUNG 
MEN'S REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
ISLAND 12TH OF JULY REP. 
CLUB, Philadelphia. 



24 



REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 



PHILADELPHIA COUNTY— Cantinued 



Ward. 

31-UNION REP. LEAGUE, FIRST 

CONG. DIST., Philadelphia. 
31— VESTA REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 

J. MECLEARY REP. CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 

UNION REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
32— THIRTY-SECOND WARD REP. 
CLUB, Philadelphia. 

HARRY R. WILDEY REP. CLUB, 
Philadelphia. 

DIRIGO REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 

WEST END REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
33-TOM REED REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 

THIRTY-THIRD WARD REP. 
CLUB, Philadelphia. 

GERMAN - AMERICAN LEAGUE, 
Philadelphia. 

BRITISH - AMERICAN LEAGUE, 
Philadelphia. 

AFRO-AMERICAN LEAGUE, Phila- 
delphia. 

LINCOLN LEAGUE, Philadelphia. 
34— M. S. QUAY LEAGUE, Philadelphia. 

YOUNG MEN'S LEAGUE, Philadel- 
phia. 

THIRTY-FOURTH WARD REP. 
LEAGUE, Philadelphia. 

ROOSEVELT REP. LEAGUE, Phil- 
adelphia. 



Ward. 

35-TACONY REP. LEAGUE, Phila- 
delphia. 
36-YOUNG MEN'S REP. LEAGUE, 
Philadelphia. 
GRAY'S FERRY REP. LEAGUE, 
Philadelphia. 
37— THIRTY-SEVENTH WARD 

LEAGUE, Philadelphia. 
38— LINCOLN REP. LEAGUE, Philadel- 
phia. 
THIRTY-EIGHTH WARD REP. 

LEAGUE, Philadelphia. 
NINETY REP. LEAGUE, Philadel- 
phia. 
FIRST REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
39— M. S. QUAY REP. CLUB, Philadel- 
phia. 
40— FORTIETH WARD REP. CLUB, 
E. W. PATTON REP. CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 
41— FORTY-FIRST WARD REP. CLUB, 

Philadelphia. 
42— WYOMING REP. CLUB, Phila- 
delphia}. 
WAR VETERANS' REP. CLUB, 

Philadelphia. 
LINCOLN REP. CLUB, Philadelphia. 
WISSINOMING REP. CLUB, Phila- 
delphia. 



SCHUYLKILL COUNTY 



MAHANOY CITY REP. CLUB, Maha- 

noy City. 
W. J. WHITEHOUSE CLUB, Pottsville. 
FIFTH WARD REP. CLUB, Pottsville. 
CENTRAL REP. CLUB, Pottsville. 
YOUNG MEN'S REP. CLUB, Mahanoy 

City. 

SOMERSET COUNTY 

LINCOLN REP. CLUB, Somerset. 
TIOQA COUNTY 

CENTRAL REP. CLUB, Wellsboro. 



FIFTH WARD REP. CLUB, Mahanoy 
City. 

LOYAL LEGION REP. CLUB, Shenan- 
doah. 

McKINLEY REP. CLUB, Shenandoah. 



VENANGO COUNTY 

OIL CITY REP. CLUB, Oil City. 
WARREN COUNTY 

WARREN CITY REP. CLUB, Warren. 



YORK COUNTY 



HANOVER REP. CLUB, Hanover. 
M. S. QUAY CLUB, Dillsboro. 



COLORED MEN'S CLUB, York. 
SEVENTH WARD CLUB, York. 




SID. B. REDDING 

TREASURER NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE 
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 25 



The Allied Republican Clubs 



The coming to Philadelphia of the National Convention of 1900, 
which nominated McKinley and Roosevelt, put new energy into the 
Republican organizations of the city and State. At that time the 
State League of Republican Clubs was presided over by J. Hampton 
Moore, who conceived the idea of organizing all of the Philadelphia 
clubs into a homogeneous body, which became famous throughout the 
country subsequently as "The Allied Republican Clubs of Philadel- 
phia and Vicinity," with headquarters located at the Union Repub- 
lican Club House, Philadelphia. 

The State League, in conjunction with the Allied Republican 
Clubs, entered vigorously into all of the work incident to the re- 
ception and entertainment of delegates and visitors to the National 
Convention. Never before in the history of the city were so many 
Republicans enrolled in the various clubs, nor was more genuine party 
enthusiasm displayed. Committees were formed to assist visitors in 
every possible way to comfort and enjoyment. Qub houses every- 
where were thrown open and entertainments lasting for days were 
freely given. Large amounts of money were raised and spent to main- 
tain the proverbial hospitality of the "City of Brotherly Love." The 
Union Republican Club House was a Mecca of all pilgrims and was 
visited by thousands. All kinds of courtesy were shown. Cards 
were issued entitling visitors to the freedom of many of the club 
houses and public institutions and also admitting them to the Conven- 
tion Hall on certain days. Under the auspices of the Allied Repub- 
lican Clubs, a great parade, marshalled by General Louis Wagner, 
was arranged for June 18th, and from the Union Qub headquarters 
was reviewed by National Chairman Hanna, Senator Scott, General 
Dick, Mr. Manley, of Maine; Mr. Payne, afterwards Postmaster- 
General, and many other distinguished men. Upwards of thirty 
thousand young men were in line on that night, with banners and 
devices indicating their loyalty to party and their devotion to country. 

Under the same auspices, on the evening of Tune 19th, a recep- 
tion and mass meeting was held in the Academy of Music, presided 
over by the President of the Allied Republican Clubs, and addressed 
by United States Senator John M. Thurston, former President of the 
National Republican League, and others. 



26 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

The Allied Republican Clubs is still in existence, under the same 
management with which it began its work, and it has been found of 
great value in mobilizing the clubs whenever occasion has required. 
Especially useful has this system of organization been in arousing 
party sentiment and in stirring up interest in the State League and 
National Conventions. It has been very largely due to this interest 
that a Philadelphian was placed at the head of the National Republi- 
can League. The roster of Allied Republican Clubs comprises the 
Philadelphia Clubs in the Pennsylvania State League. 




JOHN M. THURSTON 

EX-PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUI 
NEBRASKA- WASHINGTON 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 27 



Union Republican Club 

The Union Republican Club, which has rounded out twenty- 
five years of corporate existence — although it really dates from 1875 
—suggests by its name an interesting phase of local political history. 
Although the Republican party as a national body was organized in 
Philadelphia and found there some of its most ardent supporters, 
Philadelphians, for some unexplained reason, did not take kindly to 
the name. For several years, in fact until after the war, the party 
was known in Philadelphia as the Union party. Some years after- 
wards, when the Republican leaders formed a new political club, they 
naturally named it after their old party — the Union Club. This was 
about 1875, and followed immediately upon the disbandment of the 
Pilgrim Club. 

The Pilgrim Club (a unique organization) had rooms in one 
of the Girard Trust's buildings, on Chestnut street, above Eleventh. 
Its members were all politicians, generally the leaders of their wards 
or districts, and both Democrats and Republicans belonged to it. 
The members protested that it was a purely social organization, but 
the public believed that it was formed to promote deals between the 
leaders of the two parties and to enable a "ring" to control both nomi- 
nations and elections. The members were known as the Mysterious 
Pilgrims and the clamor about their alleged doings finally be- 
came so loud and threatening that in 1875 the Pilgrims decided to 
disband. Among the more prominent Republican Pilgrims were 
John L. Hill, William R. Leeds, Charles A. Porter, James N. Kerns, 
Charles H. T. Collis and such eminent Democrats as Lewis C. Cas- 
sidy, John Welsh and William McMullen represented that party. 

The Pilgrims had no sooner disbanded than the Republican 
leaders organized the Union Club and arranged to lease the building 
at the northeast corner of Eleventh and Chestnut streets, but, pending 
its reconstruction, the new club met on Chestnut street, above Tenth. 
It was chartered October 2.8th, 1S78, under the name of the Union 
Republican Club, the charter being issued to M. Hall Stanton, for 
many years President of the Board of Education ; John E. Addicks, 
Health Officer of the city and father of J. Edward Addicks, who has 
kept Delaware in a ferment for several years; Harry C. Selby, the 



28 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

first Secretary of the club; James N. Kerns, afterwards United 
States Marshal, and John McCullough. 

The Union Republican Club at once elected to membership all 
the members of the Union Club, which then passed out of existence. 
Its first President was John E. Addicks, who, besides being Health 
Officer, had served as a member of the Constitutional Convention 
of 1873. The first House Committee consisted of James N. Kerns, 
William Thorpe, William Delaney, John Lamon and William R. 
Leeds, and the first Committee on Membership, of John L. Hill, John 
McCullough, Charles A. Porter and Hamilton Disston. The club, 
composed almost exclusively of office holders and ward leaders, be- 
came at once a great political power. There was no law on the sub- 
ject, but in order to get a Republican nomination the candidate was 
obliged to become a member of the club. This was partly due to 
the fact that the leaders could not be seen on such business anywhere 
except at the club house, and to gain admission thereto one had to be 
a member. The club grew rapidly in numbers and in political power. 
At one time it had nearly six hundred names on its roll, but the or- 
ganization of ward clubs had a tendency to lessen the attendance at 
the Union Republican Club, and in the course of a quarter of a 
century death has removed many of the members, whose places have 
not been filled. The old-time leaders who survive still cling to the 
old club, even though they may be obliged to belong also to ward or- 
ganizations. 

The club at once entered into active work. Its rooms were 
finely furnished and in them were given receptions to many distin- 
guished political leaders, among them Roscoe Conkling, Simon Cam- 
eron and James G. Blaine. The reception to Senator Conkling was 
given in 1878. It was the first of these functions, and brought 
about an exhibition of courtesy by political opponents that is worth 
recording. 

During the war partisan feeling ran high and street fights, 
amounting to small riots, were common. The Republican Invinci- 
bles and the Keystone Club (Democratic) were frequently assailed 
when passing through wards politically hostile to them, aitcl fatal 
affrays were not infrequent. The conditions were favorable for 
street fights, for the sidewalks were of brick and the streets were 
paved with small cobble stones, which were formidable missiles. So 
common were stone fights that storekeepers had shutters which they 
could put up over their show 7 windows to protect the glass. After 
the war, party feeling subsided and the organization of the Pilgrim 
Club is credited with having removed the last trace of bitterness. 
That an era of good feeling had been brought about is shown by two 




JAMES S. CLARKSON 

EX-PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE 
IOWA— NEW YORK 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 29 



entries in the minute book of the Union Republican Club. The 
first records the passage of a resolution of thanks to the Americus 
Club (Democratic) for the courtesy of a salute on the occasion of 
the reception given to Senator Roscoe Conkling. The other entry 
records the thanks extended to the Union Republican Club by the 
Samuel J. Randall Club for the loan of guidons and flags carried by 
the latter club at the inauguration of Grover Cleveland as President, 
ill March, 1885. 

Upon the roof of the building at Eleventh and Chestnut streets 
a cannon was mounted, from which salutes were fired whenever there 
was a political parade. On such occasions the club corner became a 
centre of interest, for provision was made to profusely decorate the 
house and also for discharging fireworks from the windows and the 
loof. In the early days Chestnut street was the chief thoroughfare 
for processions ; in recent years Broad street has become the scene of 
such demonstrations, but as long as the Union Republican Club main- 
tained its old headquarters Republican processions turned eastward 
on Chestnut as far as Eleventh street that they might receive its 
greeting. 

The chief functions of the club have been parades at National 
Conventions of the Republican party and at the inauguration of Re- 
publican Presidents and Governors. The club has attended all Na- 
tional Republican Conventions held outside of Philadelphia since its 
organization, as an escort to the Pennsylvania delegates, and it has 
also attended all Republican inaugurations, invariably attracting 
favorable comment because of its strict regulations as to uniform and 
the fine appearance of the members. 

As before noted, nearly all the members have been office holders, 
including all the Republican Governors of the State, United States 
Senators from Pennsylvania and members of the House of Repre- 
sentatives from Philadelphia districts. A list of the members would 
be a roster of public officers, but some names may be recalled as they 
appear in the minute book of the club. In addition to those already 
mentioned may be noted Joseph M. Gazzam, George Truman, Wm. 
E. Littleton, Rufus Shapley, Joseph Bonham, William G. Huey, W. 
Elwood Rowan, Judge Mayer Sulzberger (who has been a member 
since 1879), W. Henry Lex, Horace Disston, Howard J. Reeder, 
Chester N. Farr, W. S. Reyburh, Wm. B. Smith, Robert Adams, Jr., 
John A. Forepaugh, A. Loudon Snowden, Thomas V. Cooper, John 
C. Grady, George Flandy Smith, George S. Graham, Samuel W. 
Pennypacker, Boies Penrose, Edwin S. Stuart, Thomas Potter, Jr., 
E. B. Hardenbergh, James A. Beaver, B. Franklin Fisher, Israel 
W. Durham, Charles E. Voorhees, William B. Mann, Theodore B. 



30 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 



Stulb, A. S. L. Shields, J. Hampton Moore, Charles F. Warwick, 
Ward R. Bliss, Gen. H. H. Bingham, Edwin H. Fitler. 

The Union Club attended the National Republican Convention 
at Cincinnati in 1876, but as the delegates from Pennsylvania pre- 
sented the name of Governor Hartranft for President the club went 
out as the Hartranft Club. A majority of the delegates were for 
Blaine, but they were tied down by instructions for Hartranft. The 
convention was one of the most famous ever held, because of the 
cleverness with which the will of the delegates was defeated by skil- 
ful manipulation. The convention was for Blaine and yet Blaine 
did not get the nomination. He would have won the first day if a 
vote could have been reached, but the proceedings were delayed by 
his opponents, who finally had the gas cut off, so as to compel ad- 
journment of the convention. Ex-Senator Cameron was Chairman 
of the* Pennsylvania delegation and had for one of his lieutenants the 
late Robert W. 1\ lackey. To keep the Blaine delegates from voting 
for him, Cameron and Mackey proposed that the Pennsylvania dele- 
gation should vote as a unit for Hartranft as long as his vote in- 
creased, but that wmen he dropped in the race the delegation should 
vote as a unit as the majority directed. The Blaine men readily 
consented, in the belief that Hartranft would soon drop out. In 
this they were disappointed, for Mackey, who was an adept in such 
matters, arranged to get a few votes for Hartranft from other dele- 
gations and they were added on successive ballots, so as to keep his 
vote rising. When at last the Blaine delegates were free to vote for 
him the opportunity to nominate him had passed, a stampede ensued 
to Rutherford B. Hayes giving the latter 384 votes, against 351 for 
Blaine, on the seventh ballot.. The Hartranft Club had served its 
purpose, but some of the members were not at all pleased with the 
outcome. 

The first national convention attended by the Union Republican 
Club as such was that held in Chicago in 1880, made ever memorable 
by the famous contest in which the 306 were engaged. Blaine and 
Grant were the leading candidates, but neither could get a majority 
of the delegates. Ultimately the Blaine forces turned to Garfield, 
in order to beat Grant, and succeeded in their purpose. Garfield was 
at the head of the Ohio delegation that was instructed for Senator 
Sherman. Grant's supporters were led by Cameron, Conkling and 
Logan, and they held their force of 306 to the end of the struggle. 
Thirty-six ballots were taken. Three hundred and seventy-eight 
votes were required to nominate. Grant never had less than 303 nor 
more than 313. Blaine's highest vote was 285 and did not fall off 
materially until the 35th ballot, when il fell to 257. On the next 




D.J). WOODMANSEE 

EX-PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPIIU.ICAN~LEAGUE 
CINCINNATI 'OHIO 



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ballot all but 42 delegates deserted him and Garfield was nominated 
by 399 votes, to 306 for Grant. The nomination for the Vice Presi- 
dency was conceded to the New York delegation, which chose 
Chester A. Arthur, who subsequently became President through the 
assassination of President Garfield. 

The club started for Chicago on Sunday, May 30th, under the 
Marshalship of William R. Leeds, and escorted by a delegation of 
citizens marshaled by James N. Kerns. It returned June 9th, in the 
evening, and the members were escorted to the club house by a num- 
ber of political organizations, amid a blaze of fireworks. During 
the parade Walter Bean, a spectator was injured by the discharge of 
a cannon and the club made suitable provision to_care for him while 
in the hospital. 

John E. Addicks, the first President of the club, died in January, 
1883, and William R. Leeds was elected as the second President. 

In 18S4 the club attended the. National Convention at Chicago, 
where Blaine at last received the nomination, only to be defeated in 
the election. The Convention assembled June 3, and there was little 
opposition to Blaine, who was nominated on the fourth ballot. Logan 
became the candidate for Vice President, and up to the last moment 
everything seemed favorable to their election. Then came the 
Burchard episode, which lost New York for Blaine and with it the 
election. 

The club presented a fine appearance at this convention, the 
members all being in uniform of gray, with cream colored high hats. 
President Leeds acted as marshal. The return was made June 7, 
and the members were escorted to their club house by fifteen Repub- 
lican clubs, James N. Kerns being chief marshal. 

The Republican National Convention of 1888 w r as held in Chi- 
cago, beginning the 19th of June, and was, as a matter of course, 
attended by the Union Republican Club. The Pennsylvania dele- 
gates, assuming that Blaine had retired, declared in favor of Senator 
John Sherman. The contest was between Sherman, Gresham, Alger 
and Harrison, and the latter won on the eighth ballot. He won the 
election also, New York again deciding the contest. 

Another great reception was given to the club on its return to 
the city, June 26th, 1888. Wendell P. Bowman was chief marshal 
of the procession and the parade was one of the events of the cam- 
paign, nearly all the Republican clubs in the city participating. 

The next National Convention to be attended by the Union Re- 
publican Club was that of 1892, which renominated Benjamin Harri- 
son, but without success. The Convention met at Minneapolis, June 
7th, 1892, and nominated Harrison on the first ballot, Blaine and 



32 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

McKinley being his chief competitors, with almost equal votes. 
Cleveland was again his competitor at the election, and relieved the 
club of the expense of a trip to Washington to attend the inaugura- 
tion ceremonies. 

The club was detained in Minneapolis long beyond the usual 
pediod of a convention and some of the members would have been in 
sore straits but for the generous enterprise of the leaders who could 
command money by telegraphic order.. 

The club having arrived in the city on Sunday there was no 
reception to the returning members as in other years, but the Public 
Ledger printed an account of the trip, which is here reproduced as 
being typical of the club's many festive journeys. 

[From the Ledger of June 13th, 1892.] 

The party had been away from Philadelphia just eight days and nine 
hours, and during that time not an accident occurred to mar the pleasure 
of the trip nor was there a case of sickness in the delegation. Those who 
had attended previous National Conventions in a similar manner say it 
was the most pleasant trip of the kind they ever took. The participants 
were congenial and the harmony in which they started was not once dis- 
turbed. The long trip to and from Minneapolis which, under ordinary 
circumstances would have proved tiresome, was pleasantly passed in telling 
stories, singing songs and chaffing each other. The last was indulged in 
frequently in the delegates' car, where District Attorney George S. Gra- 
ham. A. S. L. Shields, David H. Lane, Colonel Isaac Shields and David 
Martin tortured with their wit the innocent who laid himself open to their 
attacks. "When the}" had no victims they would turn on each other to the 
delight of those around. 

Those in the next car were enlivened by Senator Penrose, Sheriff 
Connell, Congressman Robinson, Select Councilman Houseman, Magis- 
trate Durham and S. Hoxie Godwin. 

Select Councilman Anderson, Representative Shick and ex-Common 
Councilman Lloyd had charge of the next car and their administration 
gave Select Councilmen Patton and Short, Representative Fletcher, Frank 
Hartley and the other occupants some idea of Fifth ward politics. 

Ex-United States Marshal Leeds was the hero of the next car. His 
long experience in attending National Conventions deprived this one of 
special interest to him. 

Mr. Leeds did not deign to visit the Convention hall once, pre- 
ferring to remain on the train and sing "Three Cheers for the Red, White 
and Blue.'" which was joined in by other members of the party. In this 
car were Magistrates Clement and Ahem, Senator Grady, Charles Voor- 
hees and Harry Hunter, who had to leave the party at Minneapolis and 
return home to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law. 

The entire delegation had their meals served while in Minneapolis 
and on the road in the Pullman dining car Coronado. County Commis- 
sioners Stubb and Wildemore had charge of the commissary and during 
the entire trip they attended to the wants of the inner man to the satis- 
faction of every one. 

Previous to leaving Minneapolis on Friday night after the nomina- 
tions were made, a number of flags and portraits of President Harrison 
were procured and the train decorated. Harrison badges had been se- 




GEORGE STONE 

EX-PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE 
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



STORY OF THE CLUBS 33 



cured and soon every one was wearing upon the lapel of his coat the por- 
trait of the Republican candidate for President. 

At Fort Wayne a meeting of the delegates was called to take action 
upon the nomination. David Martin, in assuming the duties of chairman, 
said the object of the meeting was the endorsement of the candidates 
nominated at Minneapolis. "As Republicans," said Mr. Martin, "we may 
fairly differ with each other as to our preferences, yet when nomina- 
tions are once made all differences should be forgotten and every good Re- 
publican should vie with each other in loyalty and devotion to the ticket. 
The candidates nominated are strong and will, I am sure, grow in strength 
until November, when the choice of the Minneapolis Convention will be 
ratified by the people." 

District Attorney Graham, who acted as secretary of the meeting, 
spoke in high terms of President Harrison as a public official whose four 
years of service in the Presidential chair would assure the country that it 
could safely trust the high office he was filling in his hands for another 
term. 

David H. Lane then offered the following resolution, which was 
unanimously adopted: 

Resolved, That we hereby endorse and ratify the nominations made at 
Minneapolis and declare our purpose to cordially and loyally join in the 
support of our nominees, declaring it to be the duty of every true Repub- 
lican to unite under Harrison and Reid and battle for victory. Our can- 
didates will command the respect of all thoughtful men, and in the un- 
assailable record of the administration of President Harrison we have a 
sure guarantee of victory. 

The meeting then adjourned with cheers for the ticket. 

On the way home the train stopped four hours in Chicago. This 
gave the Philadelphians an opportunity to see the great city of the West, 
which they all embraced. Some of them procured carriages and went to 
the World's Fair grounds and viewed the colossal buildings then in course 
of erection. Others took a drive on Michigan avenue along the lake front 
and many walked through the business portions of the city. 

Pittsburg was reached shortly after seven o'clock yesterday morning 
and there was every prospect that the train would reach Philadelphia about 
five o'clock. When about forty miles this side of the Smoky City a 
freight wreck was encountered which delayed the Philadelphians several 
hours. 

At Harrisburg a party of friends met the train and several minutes 
were spent there. Common Councilman Clayton M. Hunsicker went on 
to meet the party and returned to Philadelphia with them. Mr. Hunsicker, 
upon learning of Harrison's nomination on Friday, immediately organized 
the first Harrison Club as a tribute to District Attorney Graham, who re- 
sides in the same ward with Mr. Hunsicker and who supported Mr. Harri- 
son from the first. 

James Timmons, Traveling Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company, was with the delegation during the entire trip. He 
attended to the location of the train, took charge of the tickets and kept 
the Philadelphians informed of the movement of the train. 

In 1893 William R. Leeds, declining to be a candidate for re- 
election, nominated A, S. L. Shields as his successor, and Mr. Shields 
accordingly became the third President. Mr. Leeds died November 
5th, 1894, much lamented, for he had been from the earliest days the 
most active member of the club and had brought it to a high degree 
of political efficiency. 



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In 1896 the club journeyed to St. Louis, to attend the National 
Convention, which opened June 16th. Again there was only one 
ballot for President, McKinley having a large majority of the dele- 
gates. Pennsylvania voted for Matthew Stanley Quay. McKinley 
was triumphantly elected, by a large popular and electoral majority, 
over William J. Bryan, and the Union Republican Club attended his 
inauguration, on the 4th of March, 1897. 

The reception of the club upon its return from St. Louis, June 
20th, 1896, was the greatest in its history. The club arrived on 
Saturday evening and was welcomed by more than 10,000 uniformed 
men, with Gen. Charles L. Leiper as chief marshal. 

In December, 1899, Hon. John C. Grady was elected the fourth 
President of the club, but the club had no opportunity in 1903 to 
make its usual journey to a distant city, for the Republican National 
Convention was held in Philadelphia, and the club was called upon 
to act as host to many other organizations. It did so in most liberal 
fashion and the Convention was one of the most enjoyable ever held. 
Mr. McKinley was renominated and Roosevelt was forced to take 
second place. Bryan was again the candidate of the opposition, but 
was more overwhelmingly defeated than before, without the aid of 
a Gold Democratic ticket. The club again attended the inaugura- 
tion of President McKinley, but, a few months afterwards, the as- 
sassination of the President called Vice President Roosevelt to the 
White House. 

During the administration of Senator Grady as President the 
club removed from Eleventh and Chestnut streets to its new club 
house, at 22J South Broad street, a commodious and well furnished 
building, which, through the courtesy of the club, has been made 
headquarters for both the State League of Republican Clubs and for 
the National League. On the first floor are handsome reception 
rooms or parlors, in the rear of which has been built, in what was 
once the side yard of the dwelling, a quaint cafe. On the second 
floor partitions have been removed to make a large assembly hall, 
where the meetings of the club are held. The remainder of the com- 
modious building is fitted up for reading, card rooms, &c. The club 
is open at all hours for the refreshment of members. The building 
contains many portraits of political leaders, chief among them being 
a fine portrait in oil of Hon. Simon Cameron. Another notable 
picture in the possession of the club is the original of P. F. Rother- 
mel's "Battle of Gettysburg,'' subsequently greatly enlarged by order 
of the State of Pennsylvania and now on exhibition in the War Mu- 
seum of the State, attached to the Executive building at Harrisburg. 

On January 15th, 1903, J. Hampton Moore was elected Presi- 




ISAAC MILLER HAMILTON 

EX-PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE 
CHICAGO, ILL. 



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dent of the club, being fifth in the line of succession. He at once 
devoted his energies to an improvement of its financial condition. In 
January, 1904, he was unanimously re-elected. 

As soon as Chicago had been selected as the Convention city 
and the date fixed for the National Convention of 1904, the club 
passed a resolution to attend as an escort to the delegates from Penn- 
sylvania, and a committee was appointed to arrange for transporta- 
tion and for hotel accommodations. The roster of the club follows : 



ROSTER 

OF THE 

Union Republican Club 

OF PHILADELPHIA 

OFFICERS 

President — J. Hampton Moore 

Vice-President — John R. Wiggins 

Recording Secretary — Theodore B. Stulb 

Financial Secretary — John Kelley 

Treasurer — J. Martin Rommel 

Directors 

Thomas L. Townsend John C. Grady Ward R. Bliss 

Thomas Sailer Charles C. Overbeck John O'Donnell 

Harry Hunter John J. Kirk Harry W. Pierson 

STANDING COMMITTEES 

House — Gustav Bacharach, Chairman; Henry Starr Richardson, 
James B. Craighead, Clifton Maloney, J. Warner Hutchins. 

Finance — John 0. Sheatz, Maylin J. Pickering, Clifton Maloney, 
Joseph T. Taylor, G. Herbert Leaf. 

Entertainment — T. L. Townsend, James B. Craighead, J. Warner 
Hutchins, Howard B. Lewis, John McLeer. 

Art and Literature — William J. Milligan,. Henry Starr Richardson, 
John O'Donnell, Edward P. Evans, David C. Humphrys. 

Membership — Henry W. Pierson, Charles F. Kennedy, John R- 
Wiggins, Gustav Bacharach, Horace Pettit. 



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MEMBERS 

ALBURGER, JACOB F 521 Arcade Building 

ACTON, WALTER M Salem, N. J. 

ANDREWS, HON. W. H Park Building, Pittsburg 

ALLEN, THOMAS R 1410 Porter Street 

ALLISON WILLIAM G 3718 Haverford Avenue 

ANDERSON, DUNCAN C Tradesmen's Trust 

BINGHAM, HON. H. H 315 South Twelfth Street 

BRUNER, FRANK K 653 City Hall 

BLACK, HUGH 2329 Wharton Street 

BARNES, THOMAS Twenty-third and South Street 

BLISS, HON. WARD R 409 Fidelity Building 

BLUM, RALPH Tenth and Market Streets 

BOYLE, THOMAS S 1401 Porter Street 

BARNETT, COL. JAMES E Pittsburg 

BURK, EDWARD 620 City Hall 

BOWEN, CHARLES H 206 Carpenter Street 

BACH, R. N 2226 South Seventeenth street 

BULLEN, DR. W. H 5018 Race Street 

BLACKBURN CHARLES E 35 North Seventh street 

BROWN, HON. CHARLES L West End Title Building 

BROWN, JOSEPH H Holmesburg 

BERKLEBACH, HON. W. H 1817 North Twentieth Street 

BOYD, WILLIAM 4709 Parrish Street 

BARTON, WILLIAM J 532 South Taney Street 

BEROLTZHEIMER, D. D 317-19 South Eighteenth Street 

BACHARACH, GUSTAV 171 City Hall 

BELLAK, L. M 1129 Chestnut Street 

BUETTNER, J. J 826 Vine Street 

COPPUCK M. M 232 City Hall 

COLVILLE, ALEXANDER 2201 Fairmount Avenue 

CASTOR, HON. GEORGE S Torresdale 

COCHRONE, HON. S. B 408 Fidelity Building 

CORNELL, WILLIAM S 3715 Walnut Street 

COWAN, ALEXANDER 2227 South Twelfth Street 

CAINES, CHARLES W 2143 Bainbridge Street 

CASSEL, HON. H. BIRD Lancaster 

CORR, PETER H 213 Chestnut Street 

DURHAM, HON. ISRAEL W Betz Building, Philadelphia 

DETRE, CYRUS S 35 North Seventh Street 

DISSTON, FRANK 1530 North Sixteenth Street 

DEGENBERG, P. N 1413 Chestnut Street 

DAVIS, EDWARD T Ninth and Parrish Streets 

DUNLAP, HENRY C Juniper and Cherry Streets 

DAGER, JOHN H Norristown, Pa. 

DISSTON, HARRY C 1609 North Broad Street 

ELVERSON, JAMES 1109 Market Street 

ERB, J. CLAYTON Betz Building 

ELKIN, HON. JOHN P Arcade Building 

EYRE, T. LARRY West Chester 

EVANS, EDWARD P 935 Spruce Street 

ELLIS, CLIFFORD 336 South Seventeenth Street 

EDWARDS, HON. F. G Bristol, Pa. 

EDWARDS, ROLAND G 225 South Broad Street 

EARLE, WILLIAM G 11-13 North Ninth Street 

FORTESQUE, LOUIS R The Tracv, Philadelphia 

FOX, DR. L. WEBSTER 1304 Walnut Street 

FINNEY, HON. JOHN F Pottsville 




ANDREW B. HUMPHREY 

KX-SECRETARY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN I i 
NEW YORK CITY. N. Y. 



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FOCHT, HON. B. K Pottsville 

FLEITZ, HON. FRED W • Scranton 

FAUNCE, BENJAMIN N 675 City Hall 

FURNIVAL, GEORGE S 1245 South Twenty-third Street 

FLETCHER, J. H 617 North Thirty-second Street 

FORBES, ANDREW 6-8 North Eleventh Street 

FONDER, E. F 15 North Juniper Street 

GRADY, HON. JOHN C Real Estate Trust Building 

GIBSON, W. HOWARD United States Treasury, Washington 

GLENN, JOHN F Harrisburg 

GARVIN, THOMAS H Sharon Hill 

GILL, J. HARVEY Sharon Hill 

GEMMILL, S. STEWART 1704 Master Street 

GAYTON, SAMUEL R 1106 South Forty-sixth Street 

GAW, HORACE D 3732 Sansom Street . 

GLASCOE, ISAAC L N. E. Corner Eighth and Spruce Streets 

GRADY, CHARLES C Marietta, Pa. 

GOSLING ADOLPH Union League, Philadelphia 

GOOD, CHARLES City Hall, Philadelphia 

GOLDBERG, MAX S. W. Corner Twelfth and Chestnut Streets 

HUNTER, HARRY 227 South Broad Street 

HOFFNER, WALLACE M 1242 South Tenth Street 

HENSZEY, A. WILSON 653 City Hall, Philadelphia 

HAGAN, PETER 218 Walnut Street 

HARRISON, FRANK S 121 South Seventh Street 

HEUSTIS, CHARLES H Health Office, Philadelphia 

HUTCHINSON, GEORGE W 685 City Hall, Philadelphia 

HARDENBERGH, HON. E. B Harrisburg 

HIGGINS, AMBROSE 812 Girard Building 

HAMILTON, HON. JOHN 2300 Venango Street 

HELMS, PETER D Deputv United States Marshal. Philadelphia 

HATCH, EDWARD ." 1603 Diamond Street 

HUMMEL, HON. E. M Selins Grove. Pa. 

HENDLEY, FRANK P 117 Callowhill Street 

HONSEAL, H X. E. Corner Fifteenth and Filbert Streets- 

HAGERTY, JOHN J qoi South Thirteenth Street 

HOYT, E. S 1920 Diamond Street 

HANNA, A. J 1915 Panama Street 

HIBBS. JAMES M. 1330 Buttonwood Street 

HILL, ROBERT C 313 City Hall, Philadelphia 

HUTCHINS, J. WARNER ".728 Sansom Street 

HUNTER, FORREST Harrisburg, Pa. 

FIOFFMAN, GEORGE F 413 Market Street 

HUGHES, PETER J 1712 North Fifty-second Street 

HAINES, JOSEPH 1911 Master Street 

HARVEY, N. S 119 South Fourth Street 

HICKMAX, DR. W 1510 Walnut Street 

HUMPHRIES, DAVID C 913 Arch Street 

JOERGER, GEORGE W .412 Green Street 

JOHNSON, H. S 1336 Spruce Street 

JONES, JOSHUA R 341 Levant Street 

JAMES, A. T 

KUGLER, CLARENCE B 1106 Land Title Building 

KIRK, TOHX J 409 Green Street 

KELLEY, JOHX 2631 East Thompson Street 

KREIDER, WILLIAM H 1005 Real Estate Trust Building 

KEYSER, WILLIAM H 710 South Eleventh Street 

KUMPF, WILLIAM 615 City Hall, Philadelphia 

KOCHERSPERGER, GEORGE W 492 City Hall. Philadelphia 



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KIRK, WIILAM C 4039 Spring Garden Street 

KINSEY, HON. J. L City Hall, Philadelphia 

KELLEY, ROBERT B 4130 Parrish Street 

KENDRICK, MURDOCH Assistant District Attorney 

KENNEDY, CHARLES F 617 Citv Hall, Philadelphia 

KLECKNER JOSEPH Real Estate Trust Building 

KEER, FRED 24 South Fifteenth Street 

LANE, DAVID H 408 Land Title Building 

l.UBFRIED, JOHN B , 116 Dock Street 

LATTA, GENERAL JAMES A 1525 Mt. Vernon Street 

LEVY, EDWARD L 314 Harrison Building 

LODER, DR. P. E 517 South Eighth Street 

LEDLIE, GEORGE W 1226 Walnut Street 

LEAF, G. HERBERT 1242 Real Estate Trust Building 

LEEDS, J. ALLEN 3428 Powelton avenue 

LOPER, RICHARD R 218 Real Estate Trust Building 

LEEDS, H. RAY Land Title Buildine 

LAFEAN, HON. DANIEL F Lancaster 

LEWIS, HOWARD B 1238 Real Estate Trust Building 

LAAHS, W. C. F 1837 North Eleventh Street 

LIEBERMAN, MAX Care Snellenburg, Twelfth and Market Streets 

LLEWELLYN, GEORGE J 21 Franklin Street, Wilkesbarre 

LINKER, W 730 Sansom Street 

LEHMAN, J 322 South Broad Street 

MORRELL, HON. EDWARD 1414 South Penn Square 

MOORE, J. HAMPTON 820 Witherspoon Building 

MERRICK, WALTER T Naval Office, Philadelphia 

MACK, JOHN M 514 Fidelity Building 

MARSHALL, WILLIAM T Allegheny 

MARTIN, THOMAS S 133 City Hall, Philadelphia 

MASON, L. L 1636 Pine Street 

MATOS, WILLIAM W Care Evening Telegraph 

MATSON, HON. MYRON Bradford, Pa. 

MOTZ, AUGUST H 1309 South Fifteenth Street 

MOORE, WALTER R 402 North Thirty-second Street 

MUSCHAMP, H. F 252 Bullitt Building 

MORRELL, WILLIAM 408 South Twenty-second Street 

MILLER, J. WESLEY in South Broad Street 

MILLIGAN, WILLIAM J 408 City Hall, Philadelphia 

MYERS, JOHN B 416 South Fifteenth Street 

MYERS, GEORGE DE B Sheriff's -Office 

MALONEY, CLIFTON Betz Building 

MILLER, ALFRED S Harrisburg 

MICHENER, JOHN H Bank of North America 

McCLINCH. DANIEL 219 South Ninth Street 

McCLINTOCK, J. J 812-T6 Penn Square Building 

McNICHOL, JAMES P Betz Building 

McNICHOL, DANIEL J Betz Building 

McLEER, JOHN 1320 Jefferson Street 

McALISTER, DR. J 1634 Pine Street 

McCOACH WILLIAM Ninth and Chestnut Streets 

McCONKEY, E. R York, Pa. 

OVERBECK, CHARLES C 254 North Marvine Street 

O'DONNEL, JOHN 1161 South Thirteenth Street 

ORAM, JAMES 118 North Twelfth Street 

O'BRIEN, E. M 1005-06 Real Estate Trust Building 

ORR, THOMAS 1328 Pine Street 

PELTZ, RICHARD City Hall, Philadelphia 

PENROSE, HON. BOIES 1331 Spruce Street 




JOHN R. WIGGINS 

PRESIDENT PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEAGUE 
LIFE MEMBER UNION REPUBLICAN CLUB 



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PENROSE, R. A. R, JR 460 Bullitt Building 

POTTER, THOMAS M., JR P. O. Box 854, Philadelphia 

PEARSON DR. LEONARD 3608 Pine Street 

PIERSON, HENRY W Chestnut Street 

PRICE, JOHN J 406 Wood Street 

PIDGEON, W. J 1602 South Fourth Street 

PATTERSON, R J 1305 Locust Street 

PETTIT, HORACE Stephen Girard Building 

PICKERING, MAYLEN J 238 Arch Street 

PAYNE, GEORGE F 401 South Juniper Street 

PATTON, E. W Betz Building 

PUHL, HON. J. E 1034 North Fourth Street 

PERAN, JOHN G 229 South Broad Street 

PIFFERLING, EMANUEL. .. .Snellenburg, Twelfth and Market Streets 

QUAY, HON. M. S Washington 

QUAY, MAJ. A. C. G Mountville, Pa. 

QUICK, HARRY W 

QUAIL CHARLES E Auburn Schuylkill County 

ROTHERMEL, P. R, Jr 804 Land Title Building 

RALSTON, HON. ROBERT 5900 Woodbine Avenue 

REEDER, HON. FRANK Easton, Pa. 

REEBER, HORACE F Pcttsville 

REINHOLD E. L Marietta, Pa. 

ROMMEL, J. MARTIN 

RUSSELL, JAMES S 102 City Hall, Philadelphia 

REYBURN, HON. J. E 1822 Spring Garden Street 

RICHARDSON, H. STARR Daily News 

STEEL, ROBERT 1508 Chestnut Street 

STEEL, JAMES 1508 Chestnut Street 

STEEL, DAVID 1508 Chestnut Street 

STULB, HON. T. B 227 South Broad Street 

SULZBERGER, HON, MAYER 1303 Girard avenue 

SAILER, THOMAS 615 City Hall, Philadelphia 

SEGER, CHARLES. . . . > Betz Building 

SHINDEL, R. H York, Pa. 

SMYTH, HON. DAVID J 217 City Hall, Philadelphia 

SIDES, WILLIAM 1127 Dauphin Street 

SAGER, JOHN C City Hall, Philadelphia 

STOUT, THOMAS S 478 City Hall, Philadelphia 

SIMON, JOHN H 2206 South Broad Street 

SILLIMAN, EDWARD Mahanoy City 

SHELLY, JOSEPH W District Attorney Dovlestown 

SEGER, EDWARD 1416 South Penn Square 

SHANNON, JAMES F Thirteenth and Drury Streets 

STINGER, SAMUEL K 3124 Wharton Street 

SAYEN, WILLIAM H 1414 South Penn Square 

SHIELDS, A. S. L 200 Betz Building 

STEWART, G. W Continental Hotel 

STANTON, H. M 1009 Farragut Terrace 

SNELLENBURG, A Twelfth and Market Streets 

SHEATZ, G. 3315 Hamilton Street 

THOMPSON ROBERT J 1160 Chestnut Street 

TERNE, DR. H. B S. W. Cor. Fifty-first and Market Street 

TRIMBLE, H. N 908-10 Arcade Building 

TOWNSEND, THOMAS L 4142 Leidy Avenue 

TAYLOR, JOHN Sixteenth Police District 

TAYLOR, JOSEPH T Penn Square Building 

VIRDIN, JOHN 313 Allen Street 

WATTS, DAVID H 1^22 Chestnut Street 



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WARFIELD, CHARLES H 333 South Twentieth Street 

WHITE, UPTON H 804 Provident Building 

WIDDIS, C. C 52 North Tenth Street 

WILSON, WILLIAM 115 South Seventh Street 

WILDEY, H. R 2035 North Thirteenth Street 

WILDEMORE, JACOB 130 City Hall, Philadelphia 

WEAVER, HON. TOHX City Hall, Philadelphia 

WELLS, EDWARD W .'. .914 Walnut Street 

WAGONER, CHARLES S 1420 Chestnut Street 

WHITE, C. H : ..." 446 City Hall, Philadelphia 

WIGGINS, JOHN R .\1215 Filbert Street 

WILLIAMS. H. F 2 North Fiftieth Street 

WAGNER, W. E T39 North Nineteenth Street 

WOLF, AUGUST Franklin and Vine Streets 

WEYL, JULIUS S 112 North Twelfth Street 

WAGNER, CHARLES M . 201 South Twelfth Street 

YOUNG, JAMES P 1836 Diamond Street 

YOUNG. ROBERT T....S. E. Corner Seventeenth and Chestnut Streets 




SAMUEL H. ASHBRIDGE 

LIFE MEMBER 



Story of the Party 




ISRAEL W. DURHAM 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 



43 



BRIEF HISTORY OF THE 
REPUBLICAN PARTY 



The Republican party is to celebrate its semi-centennial anniver- 
sary this year, under a resolution adopted by the National Com- 
mittee on motion of Hon. Boies Penrose, Chairman of the State 
Committee of Pennsylvania. The party held its earliest conven- 
tions in New York and in two of the Western States in 1854, 
and, although it was very weak in New York, it cast enough 
votes there to elect Clark, the Whig candidate, for Governor, over 
Seymour, by 309 majority. The first State Convention of the Re- 
publican party was held in Pittsburg in 1855, but Passmore Wil- 
liamson, its candidate for Canal Commissioner, was persuaded to 
withdraw and a Union candidate (who was defeated) was named by 
the committees of the Whig, American and Republican parties. The 
first Republican National Convention was held in Philadelphia, June 
17th, 1856c It nominated John C. Fremont for President, who was 
defeated, although he made a good run, carrying-New York, the New 
England States, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. 

The outlook was not encouraging for the new party in i860 until 
the Democratic party split into two factions. The contest was 
spirited and Lincoln won by a good electoral majority, getting 180 
electoral votes to 12 for Douglas, 72 for Breckenridge and 39 for 
Bell. Douglass received almost as many popular votes as Brecken- 
ridge and Bell combined, but only 12 electoral votes against 11 1 for 
his rivals. The popular vote was: Lincoln, 1,866,452; Douglass, 
I >375> 1 57; Breckenridge, 847,953; Bell, 590,631 ; but the Republi- 
can victory was greater than appears from these figures. Lincoln 
would have retained his electoral plurality if all of the opposition 
votes had been concentrated on one candidate against him. 

From i860 to the present day the Republican party has lost 
only two Presidential elections, those of 1884 and 1892. It elected 

Abraham Lincoln, in i860 and 1864. 

Ulysses S. Grant, in 1868 and 1872. 

Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1876. 



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James A. Garfield, in 1880. 

Benjamin Harrison, in 1886. 

William McKinley, in 1896 and 1900. 

Its Vice Presidential candidates who succeeded to the Presi- 
dency were Andrew Johnson, succeeding Lincoln; Chester A. 
Arthur, succeeding Garfield, and Theodore Roosevelt, succeeding 
McKinley. Of its six elected Presidents three were assassinated. 



REPUBLICAN PLATFORMS 

The first platform of the Republican party was adopted by the 
National Convention which met in Philadelphia June 17th, 1856, and 
nominated Gen. John C. Fremont for President. The new party was 
composed of Free Soil Democrats, Native Americans, Whigs and 
Abolitionists, and the platform was designed to conciliate these some- 
what discordant elements. It was as follows : 

This convention of delegates, assembled in pursuance of a call 
addressed to the people of the United States, without regard to past 
political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the repeal of 
the Missouri Compromise, to the policy of the present administra- 
tion, to the extension of slavery into free territory; in favor of ad- 
mitting Kansas as a free State, of restoring the action of the Federal 
Government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson and who 
purpose to unite in presenting candidates for the offices of President 
and Vice President do resolve as follows : 

Resolved, That the maintenance of the principles promulgated 
in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Con- 
stitution, is essential to the preservation of our Republican institu- 
tions and the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States and the 
union of the States shall be preserved. 

Resolved, That with our Republican fathers we hold it to be a 
self-evident truth that all men are endowed with the inalienable 
rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that the pri- 
mary object and ulterior designs of our Federal Government were 
to secure those rights to all persons within its exclusive jurisdiction; 
that, as our Republican fathers when they had abolished slavery in 
all our national territory ordained that no person should be deprived 
of life, liberty or property without due process of law, it becomes our 
duty to maintain this provision of the Constitution against ail at- 
tempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing slavery in any 
territory of the United States by positive legislation prohibiting its 




DAVID H. LANE 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 45 

existence or extension therein. That we deny the authority of Con- 
gress or of a territorial Legislature, of any individual or association 
of individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of 
the United States while the present Constitution shall be maintained. 

Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sover- 
eign power over the Territories of the United States for their gov- 
ernment, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right 
and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin 
relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery. 

Resolved, That while the Constitution of the United States was 
ordained and established by the people in order to form a more per- 
fect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for 
the common defence, and secure the blessings of liberty, and contains 
ample provision for the protection of the life, the liberty and property 
of every citizen, the dearest constitutional rights of the people of Kan- 
sas have been fraudulently and violently taken from them; their 
territory has been invaded by an armed force; spurious and pre- 
tended legislative, judicial and executive officers have been set over 
them by whose usurped authority, sustained by the military power of 
the Government, tyrannical and unconstitutional laws have been en- 
acted and enforced ; the rights of the people to keep and bear arms 
have been infringed, test oaths of an extraordinary and entangling 
nature have been imposed as a condition of exercising the right of 
suffrage and holding office; the right of an accused person to a 
speedy and public trial by an impartial jury has been denied; the 
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and 
effects against unreasonable searches and seizures has been violated ; 
they have been deprived of life, liberty and property without due 
process of law ; that the freedom of speech and of the press has been 
abridged ; the right to choose their representatives has been made of 
no effect; murders, robberies and arsons have been instigatetd and 
encouraged and the offenders have been allowed to go unpunished; 
that all these things have been done with the knowledge, sanction and 
procurement of the present administration; and that for this high 
crime against the Constitution, the Union and humanity, we 
arraign the Administration, the President, his advisers, agents, sup- 
porters, apologists and accessories, either before or after the fact, 
before the country and before the world, and that it is our fixed 
purpose to bring the actual perpetrators of these atrocities, outrages 
and their accomplices, to a sure and condign punishment hereafter. 

Resolved, That Kansas should be immediately admitted as a 
State of the Union, with her present free Constitution as at once 
the most effectual way of securing to her citizens the enjoyment of 



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the rights and privileges to which they are entitled and of ending the 
civil strife now raging in her territory. 

Resohedj That the highwaymen's plea that "might makes 
right/' embodied in the Ostend circular, was in every way unworthy 
or American diplomacy and would bring shame and dishonor upon 
any Government or people that gave it their sanction. 

Resolved, That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean, by the most 
central and practical route is imperatively demanded by the interests 
of the whole country and that the Federal Government ought to ren- 
der immediate and efficient aid in its construction ; and as an auxil- 
iary thereto, the immediate construction of an emigrant route on the 
line of the railroad. 

Resolved, That appropriations by Congress for the improve- 
ment of rivers and harbors of a national character required for the 
accommodation and security of our existing commerce are author- 
ized by the Constitution and justified by the obligation of Govern- 
ment to protect the lives and property of its citizens. 

PLATFORM OF i860. 

The second platform, adopted in i860, dealt in much the same 
way as the first with the slavery issue, but added two important para- 
graphs on other subjects, as follows : 

12. That, while providing revenue for the support of the gen- 
eral Government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires 
such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development 
of the industrial interests of the whole country and we commend that 
policy of national exchanges which secures to the working men 
liberal wages, to agriculture remunerating prices, to mechanics and 
manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor and enter- 
prise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and independence. 

14. That the Republican party is opposed to any change in our 
naturalization laws or any State legislation by which the rights of 
citizenship hitherto accorded to immigrants from foreign lands shall 
be abridged or impaired ; and in favor of giving a full and efficient 
protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether native 
or naturalized, both at home and abroad. 

PLATFORM OF 1 864. 

Slavery was still the main issue in 1864, but conditions had 
changed and the Republican party, in its platform of that year, in- 
stead of merely resisting the extension of slavery to the Territories, 
demanded the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution to ter- 




JAMES P. McNICHOL 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 47 



ruinate and forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits 
or jurisdiction of the United States. 

Two paragraphs from this platform are important. They are : 
8. Resolved, That foreign immigration, which in the past has 
added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase 
of power to this nation — the asylum of the oppressed of all nations — 
should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy. 

10. Resolved, That the national faith pledged for the redemp- 
tion of the public debt must be kept inviolate and that for this purpose 
we recommend economy and rigid responsibility in the public ex- 
penditures and a rigorous and just system of taxation, and that it is 
the duty of every loyal State to sustain the credit and promote the 
use of the national currency. 

PLATFORM OF 1 868. 

The new subjects discussed in the platform of 1868 related to 
negro suffrage, and to the greenback heresy as a form of repudia- 
tion. The paragraphs of importance were as follows : 

2. The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men 
at the South was demanded by every consideration of public safety, 
of gratitude and of justice, and must be maintained; while the ques- 
tion of suffrage in all the loyal states properly belongs to the people 
of those States. 

3. We denounce all forms of repudiation as a national crime, 
and the national honor requires the payment of the public indebted- 
ness in the uttermost good faith to all creditors at home and abroad, 
not only according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws" under which 
it was contracted. 

4. It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation should be 
equalized and reduced as rapidly as the national faith will permit. 

5. The national debt, contracted as it has been for the preser- 
vation of the Union for all time to come, should be extended over 
a fair period for redemption; and it is the duty of Congress to re- 
duce the rate of interest thereon whenever it can be honestly done. 

6. That the best policy to diminish our burden of debt is so to 
improve our credit that capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower 
rates of interest than we now pay, and must continue to pay so long 
as repudiation, partial or total, open or covert, is threatened or sus- 
pected. 

PLATFORM OF 1 872. 

In 1872 Civil Service reform was introduced and endorsement 
given to the principle of protection in the following paragraphs : 



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5. Any system of the Civil Ser vice under which the subordi- 
nate positions of the Government are :onsidered rewards for mere 
party zeal is fatally demoralizing and we therefore favor a reform 
of the system by laws which shall abolish the evil of patronage and 
make honesty, efficiency and fidelity the essential qualifications for 
public positions, without practically creating a life tenure for office. 

The annual revenue, after paying current expenditures, pen- 
sions and the interest on the public debt, should furnish a moderate 
balance for the reduction of the principal and that revenue, except 
so much as may be derived from a tax upon tobacco and liquors, 
should be so adjusted as to aid in securing remunerative wages to 
labor, and promote the indv rosperity and growth of the 

whole count r 

PLATFORM O! [8 V 

The platform of 1876 emphasizes the principles of Civil Service 
reform, but its most important paragraph on new issues is that which 
relates to a resumption of specie payment 5 as follows 

4. In the first act of Congress signed by President Grant, the 

:«nal Government assumed to remove any doubts : its pui 
to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors, and - 
pledged its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period 
for the redemption of the United States. notes in coin/ Commer- 
cial prosperity, public morals and national credit demand that this 
promise be fulfilled by a continuous and steady progress to specie 
payment. 

The platform of 1876 also introduced the Chinese 

nnmigration and the prohibition of polygamy in the Territories. 

11. It is the immediate duty of Congress fully to investigate 
the effect of immigration and importation of Mongolians upon the 
moral and material interests of the country. 

13. The Constitution confers upon Cong jress sovereign power 
r the Territories of the United States for their government and 
in the exercise of this power it is the right and duty of Congre- 
prohibit and extirpate in the Territories that relic of- barbarism, po- 
lygamy, and we demand such legislation as shall secure this end and 
the supremacy of American institutions in all the Territories. 

1 -Tform of 1880. 

The platform of 1880 proposed a constitutional amendment pro- 
hibiting appropriatior oport of sectarian schools, 
attracted no attention and has been dropped. The 




JOHN H. MICHENER 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 49 



declarations in favor of protection to American industry and against 
Chinese immigration were made more emphatic, as follows : 

5. We reaffirm the belief avowed in 1876, that the duties levied 
for the purpose of revenue should so discriminate as to favor Ameri- 
can labor. 

6. Since the authority to regulate immigration and intercourse 
between the United States and foreign nations rests with Congress 
or with the United States and its treaty making powers, the Republi- 
can party, regarding the unrestricted immigration of the Chinese 
as an evil of great magnitude, invokes the exercise of those powers to 
restrain and limit that immigration by enactment of such just, 
humane and reasonable provisions as will produce that result. 

The declaration in favor of Civil Service reform was made 
stronger than before. 

PLATFORM OF 1 884. 

The platform of 1884 was made particularly strong on the sub- 
ject of protection to American industries, and it opened up in a ten- 
tative way the subject of the money standard which subsequently be- 
came the main issue. Important paragraphs from that platform are 
as follows 

4. It is the first duty of a good Government to protect the 
rights and promote the interests of its own people. The largest di- 
versity of industry is most productive of general prosperity and of 
the comfort and independence of the people. We, therefore, demand 
that the imposition of duties on foreign imports shall be made, not 
for revenue only, but that in raising the requisite revenues for the 
Government such duties shall be so levied as to afford security to 
our diversified industries and protection to the rights and wages 
of the laborers, to the end that active and intelligent labor, as well 
as capital, may have its just reward and the laboring man his full 
share in the national prosperity. 

5. Against the so-called economical system of the Democratic 
party, which would degrade our labor to the foreign standard, we 
enter our most earnest protest. The Democratic party has failed 
completely to relieve the people of the burden of unnecessary taxation 
by a wise reduction of the surplus. 

6. The Republican party pledges itself to correct the irregulari- 
ties of the tariff and to reduce the surplus, not by the vicious and 
indiscriminate process of horizontal reduction, but by such methods 
as will relieve the taxpayer without injuring the laborer or the 
great productive interests of the country. 



50 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

y. We recognize the importance of the sheep industry in the 
United States, the serious depression which it is now experiencing, 
and the danger threatening its future prosperity ; and we, therefore, 
respect the demands of the representatives of this important agricul- 
tural interest for a readjustment of duties upon foreign wool, in 
order that such industry shall have full and adequate protection. 

8. We have always recommended the best money known to the 
civilized world, and we urge that an effort be made to unite all com- 
mercial nations in the establishment of an international standard 
which shall fix for all the relative value of gold and silver coinage. 



PLATFORM OF 1 888. 

Again in 1888 emphatic declaration was made in favor of pro- 
tection to American industries and again the money question was 
made secondary. The "planks" relating to these subjects were as 
follows : 

We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of 
protection. We protest against its destruction as proposed by the 
President and his party. They serve the interests of Europe, we 
will support the interests of America. We accept the issue, and con- 
fidently appeal to the people for their judgment. The protective 
system must be maintained. Its abandonment has always been fol- 
lowed by disaster to all interests except those of the usurer and the 
sheriff. We denounce the Mills bill as destructive to the general 
business, the labor and the farming interests of the country, and 
we heartily endorse the consistent and patriotic action of the 
Republican representatives in Congress opposing its passage. 
We condemn the proposition of the Democratic party to place 
wool on the free list, and we insist that the duties thereon 
shall be adjusted and maintained so as to furnish full and ade- 
quate protection to that industry. The Republican party would 
effect all needed reduction of the national revenue by repealing the 
taxes upon tobacco, which are an annoyance and burden to agricul- 
ture, and the tax upon spirits used in the arts and for mechanical 
purposes, and by such revision of the tariff laws as will tend to check 
imports of such articles as are produced by our people, the produc- 
tion of which gives employment to our labor and release from import 
duties those articles of foreign production, except luxuries, the like of 
which cannot be produced at home. If there shall still remain a 
larger revenue than is requisite for the wants of the Government we 
favor the entire repeal of internal taxes, rather than the surrender of 




J. MARTIN ROMMEL 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 51 

any part of our protective system, at the joint behest of the whiskey 
trusts and the agents of foreign manufacturers. 

* * >:< * * 

The Republican party is in favor of the use of both gold and 
silver as money and condemns the policy of the Democratic adminis- 
tration in its efforts to demonetize silver. 

PLATFORM OF 1 892. 

The principle of protection was again made prominent in the 
platform of 1892, but no new ideas were advanced. The money 
plank was made more prominent than before and was as follows : 

The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bi- 
metalism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold 
and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and under such 
provisions to be determined by legislation, as will secure the main- 
tenance of the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchas- 
ing and debt paying power of the dollar, whether silver, gold or 
paper, shall be at all times equal. The interests of the producers of 
the country, its farmers and its workingmen, demand that every 
dollar, paper or coin, issued by the Government shall be as good 
as any other. 

We recommend the wise and patriotic steps already taken by our 
Government to secure an international conference to adopt such 
measures as will insure a parity of value between gold and silver for 
use as money throughout the world. 

PLATFORM OF 1 896. 

Protection to American industries was again made the chief 
plank in the platform of 1896, but the campaign made the money 
issue of more importance, and on that subject the Republican plat- 
form declared: 

Trie Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It 
caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of 
specie payments in 1879. Since then every dollar has been as good 
as gold. 

We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to de- 
base our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, 
therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by interna- 
tional agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, 
which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can 
be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our 
silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold and 



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we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obliga- 
tions of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, 
at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations 
of the earth. 

PLATFORM OF 10,00. 

The platform of 1900 is given in full, but particular attention is 
called to the Sound Money Plank, which declares unequivocally for 
the gold standard. 

The Republicans of the United States, through their chosen represen- 
tatives, met in National Convention, looking back upon an unsurpassed 
record of achievement and looking forward into a great field of duty and 
opportunity, and appealing to the judgment oi their countrymen, make 
these declarations: 

The expectation in which the American people, turning from the 
Democratic party, intrusted power four years ago to a Republican Chief 
Magistrate and a Republican Congress, has been met and satisfied. When 
the people then assembled at the polls after a term of Democratic legis- 
lation and administration, business was dead, industry paralyzed and the 
national credit disastrously impaired. The country's capital was hidden 
away and its labor distressed and unemployed. The Democrats had no 
other plan with which to improve the ruinous conditions which they had 
themselves produced than to coin silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. The 
Republican party, denouncing this plan as sure to produce conditions even 
worse than those from which relief was sought, promised to restore pros- 
perity by means of two legislative measures — a Protective Tariff and a law 
making gold the standard of value. The people by great majorities issued 
to the Republican party a commission to enact these laws. The commis- 
sion has been executed, and the Republican promise is redeemed. Pros- 
perity more general and more abundant than we have ever known has fol- 
lowed these enactments. There is no longer controversy as to the value 
of any Government obligations. Every American dollar is a gold dollar or 
its assured equivalent, and American credit stands higher than that of any 
nation. Capital is fully employed and labor everywhere is profitably occupied. 
No single fact can more strikingly tell the story of what Republican govern- 
ment means to the country than this — that while during the whole' period 
of one hundred and seven years from 1790 to 1897 there was an excess of 
exports over imports of only $.583,028,497, there has been in the short three 
years of the present Republican administration an excess of exports over 
imports in the enormous sum of $1,483,537,094. 

And while the American people, sustained by this Republican legis- 
lation, have been achieving these splendid triumphs in their business and 
commerce, they have conducted and in victory concluded a war for liberty 
and human rights. No thought of national aggrandizement tarnished the 
high purpose with which American standards were unfurled. It was a war 
unsought and patiently resisted, but when it came the American Govern- 
ment was ready. Its fleets were cleared lor action. Its armies were in the 
field, and the quick and signal triumph of its forces on land and sea bore 
equal tribute to the courage of American soldiers and sailors, and to the 
skill and foresight <>f Republican statesmanship. To ten millions of the 
human race there was given ''a new birth of freedom," and to the American 
people a new and noble r< sponsibility. 

We indorse the administration of Presidenl William McKinley. Its 
acts have been established in wisdom and in patriotism, and at home and 




IMHM M. M \( K 
LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 53 



abroad it has distinctly elevated and extended the influence of the American 
nation. Walking untried paths and facing unforseen responsibilities, Presi- 
dent McKinley has been in every situation the true American patriot, and 
upright statesman, clear in vision, strong in judgment, firm in action, al- 
ways inspiring and deserving the confidence of his countrymen. 

In asking the American people to indorse this Republican record and 
to renew their commission to the Republican party, we re.mind them of 
the fact that the menace to their prosperity has always resided in Demo- 
cratic principles, and no less in the general incapacity of the Demo- 
cratic party to conduct public affairs. The prime essential of business pros- 
perity is public confidence in the good sense of the Government and in its 
ability to deal intelligently with each new problem of administration and 
legislation. That confidence the Democratic party has never earned. It is 
hopelessly inadequate, and the country's prosperity, when Democratic suc- 
cess at the polls is announced, halts and ceases in mere anticipation of 
Democratic blunders and failures. 

We renew our allegiance to the principle of the gold standard and de- 
clare our confidence in the wisdom of the legislation of the Fifty-sixth 
Congress by which the parity of all our money and the stability of our 
currency upon a gold basis has been secured. We recognize that interest 
rates are a potent factor in production and business activity, and for the 
purpose of further equalizing and of further lowering the rates of interest, 
we favor such monetary legislation as will enable the varying needs of the 
season and of all sections to be promptly met in order that trade may be 
evenly sustained, labor steadily employed and commerce enlarged. The 
volume of money in circulation was never so great per capita as it is to- 
day. 

We declare our steadfast opposition to the free and unlimited coinage 
of silver. No measure to that end could be considered which was without 
the support of the leading commercial countries of the world. However 
firmly Republican legislation may seem to have secured the country against 
the peril of base and discredited currency, the election of a Democratic 
President could not fail to impair the country's credit and to bring once 
more into question the intention of the American people to maintain upon 
the gold standard th^ parity of their money circulation The Democratic 
party must be convinced that the American people will never tolerate the 
Chicago platform. 

We recognize the necessity and propriety of the honest co-operation 
of capital to meet new business conditions and especially to extend our 
rapidly increasing foreign trade, but we condemn all conspiracies anjd- 
combinatio/ns intended to restrict business, to create monopolies, to limit 
production, or to control prices, and favor such legislation as will efifec- 
t' " ely restrain and prevent all such abuses, protect and promote competition 
and secure the rights of producers, laborers and all who are engaged in 
industry and commerce. 

We renew our faith in the policy of Protection to American labor. 
In that policy our industries have been established, diversified and main- 
tained. By protecting the home market competition has been stimulated 
and production cheapened. Opportunity to the inventive genius of our 
people has been secured, and wages in every department of labor main- 
tained at high rates, higher now than ever before, and always distinguishing 
our working people in their better conditions of life from those of any 
competing country. Enjoying the blessings of the American common 
school, secure in the right of self-government and protected in the occu- 
pancy of their own markets, their constantly increasing knowledge and 
skill have enabled them to finally enter the markets of the world. We 
favor the associated policy of reciprocity so directed as to open our mar- 
kets on favorable terms for what we do not ourselves produce in return 
for free foreign markets. >. 



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In the further interest of American workmen we favor a more effec- 
tive restriction of the immigration of cheap labor from foreign lands, trie 
extension of opportunities of education for working children, Fhe raising of 
the age limit for child labor, the protection of free labor as against con- 
tract convict labor, and an effective system of labor insurance. 

Our present dependence upon foreign shipping for nine-tenths of our 
foreign carrying trade is a great loss to the industry of this country. It is 
also a serious danger to our trade, for its sudden withdrawal in the event 
of European war would seriously cripple our expanding foreign commerce. 
The national defense and naval efficiency of this country, moreover, supply 
a compelling reason for legislation which will enable us to recover our 
former place among the trade-carrying fleets of the world. 

The nation owes a debt of profound gratitude to the soldiers and 
sailors who have fought its battles, and it is the Government's duty to 
provide for the survivors and for the widows and orphans of those who 
have fallen in the country's wars. The pension laws, founded on this just 
sentiment, should be liberal and should be liberally administered, and pref- 
erence should be given wherever practicable with respect to employment 
in the public service to soldiers and sailors and to their widows and or- 
phans. 

We commend the policy of the Republican party in maintaining the 
efficiency of the Civil Service. The Administration has acted wisely in its 
efforts to secure for public service in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the 
Philippine Islands only those whose fitness has been determined by train- 
ing and experience. We believe that employment in the public service in 
these territories should be confined as far as practicable to, their inhabi- 
tants. * 

It was the plain purpose of the fifteenth amendment to the Con- 
stitution to prevent discrimination on account of race or color in regulat- 
ing the elective franchise. Devices of State governments, whether by 
statutory or constitutional enactment, to avoid the purpose of this amend- 
ment, are revolutionary, and should be condemned. 

Public movements looking to a permanent improvement of the roads 
and highways of the country meet with our cordial approval, and we 
recommend this subject to the earnest consideration of the people and" of 
the Legislatures of the several States. 

We favor the extension of the Rural Free Delivery Service wherever 
its extension may be justified. 

In further pursuance of the constant policy of- the Republican party 
to provide free homes on the public domain, we recommend adequate 
national legislation to reclaim the arid lands of the United States, reserv- 
ing control of the distribution of water for irrigation to the respective 
States and Territories. 

We favor home rule for and the early admission to Statehood of the 
Territories of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. 

The Dingley Act. amended to provide sufficient revenue for the con 
duct of the war, has so well performed its work that it has been possible 
to reduce the war debt in the sum of S40. 000,000. So ample are the Gov- 
ernment's revenues and so great is the public confidence in the integrity of 
its obligations that its newly-funded two per cent, bonds sell at a premium. 
The country is now justified in expecting, and it will be the policy of the 
Republican party to bring about, a reduction of the war taxes. 

We favor the construction, ownership, control and protection of an 
Isthmian canal by the Government of the United States. New markets are 
necessary for the increasing surplus of our farm products. Every effort 
should be made to open and obtain new markets, especially in the Orient, 
and the administration is to be warmly commended for its successful effort 
to commit all trading and colonizing nations to the policy of the open door 
in China. 




E. B. HARDENBERGH 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 55 

In the interest of our expanding commerce we recommend that Con- 
gress create a Department of Commerce and Industries in the charge of 
a Secretary with a seat in the Cabinet. The United States consular system 
should be reorganized under the supervision of this new department upon 
such a basis of appointment and tenure as will render it still more service- 
able to the nation's increasing trade. 

The American government must protect the person and property of 
every citizen wherever they are wrongfully violated or placed in peril. 

We congratulate the women of America upon their splendid record 
of public service in the volunteer aid association and as nurses in camjp 
and hospital during the recent campaigns of our armies in the East and 
Western Indies, and we appreciate their faithful co-operation in all works 
of education and industry. 

President McKinley has conducted the foreign affairs of the United 
States with distinguished credit to the American people. In releasing us 
from the vexatious conditions of a European alliance for the government 
of Samoa, his course is especially to be commended. By securing to our 
undivided control the most important island of the Samoan group and the 
best harbor in the Southern Pacific, every American interest has been 
safeguarded. 

We approve the annexation of the Hawaiian islands to the United 
States. 

We commend the part taken by our Government in the Peace Con- 
ference at The Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence to the policy 
announced in the Monroe Doctrine. The provisions of the Hague Con- 
vention were wisely regarded when President McKinley tendered his 
friendly offices in the interest of peace between Great Britain and the 
South African Republic. While the American Government must continue 
the policy prescribed by Washington, affirmed by every succeeding Presi- 
dent and imposed upon us by The Hague treaty of non-intervention in 
European controversies, the American people earnestly hope that a way 
may soon be found, honorable alike to both contending parties, to termi- 
nate the strife between them. 

In accepting, by the Treaty of Paris, the just responsibility of our 
victories in the Spanish war, the President and the Senate won the un- 
doubted approval of the American people. No other course was possible 
than to destroy Spain's sovereignty throughout the West Indies and in 
the Philippine Islands. That course created our responsibility before the 
world, and with the unorganized population whom our intervention had 
freed from Spain, to provide for the maintenance of law and order, and 
for the establishment of good government and for the performance} of 
international obligations. Our authority could not be less than our respon- 
sibility, and wherever sovereign rights were extended it became the high 
duty of the Government to maintain its authority, to put down armed in- 
surrection and to confer the blessings of liberty and civilization upon all 
the rescued peoples. The largest measure of self-government consistent 
with their welfare and our duties shall be secured to them by law. 

To Cuba independence and self-government were assured in the same 
voice by which war was declared, and to the letter this pledge shall be 
performed. 

The Republican party upon its history, and upon this declaration of 
its principles and policies, confidently invokes the considerate and approv- 
ing judgment of the American people. 



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Growth of the Party in Pennsylvania 

The growth of the Republican party in Pennsylvania is to be 
measured by the returns of Presidential elections, for in State con- 
tests factional differences and local issues often prevent the casting of 
strict party votes. In Presidential contests, on the other hand, po- 
litical principles being at stake, men vote for the policies they ap- 
prove, without much regard to candidates. The Republican party 
and its principles have had an almost steady growth in Pennsyl- 
vania ever since its birth in 1S56, as will be seen by the following 
tables. The names of candidates are omitted that the party contrast 
may be made more obvious. The percentages given are approxi- 
mate, and except where noted take no account of third parties : 

1856. 

Republican (Union), 203,534 — 44 per cent. 

Democratic, 230.686 — 50 per cent. 

American, 26,337 — 6 per cent. 

i860. 

Republican, 268,030 — 56 per cent. 

Democratic, 195.636 — 41 per cent. 

Union, 12,776 — 3 per cent. 

1864. 
Republican, 296,389— 51 per cent. 

Democratic, 276.308 — 49 per cent. 

1868. 
Republican, 342.280—52 per cent. 

Democratic, 313.382—48 per cent. 

1872. 
Republican, 349.589—62 per cent. 

Democratic, 212.041—38 per cent. 

1876. 
Republican, 384,184—51 per cent. 

Democratic, 366,204 — 49 per cent. 

1880. 

Republican, 444,704—51 per cent. 

Democratic, 407428 — 46 per cent. 

Populist. 20,668 — 3 per cent. 




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LIFE MEMBER 



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57 



Republican, 
Democratic, 
Opposition, 



Republican, 
Democratic, 
Opposition, 



Republican, 
Democratic, 
Opposition, 



Republican, 
Democratic, 
Opposition, 



Republican, 
Democratic, 
Opposition, 



1884. 



1888. 



1892. 



1896. 



1900. 



473,804—52 per cent. 

39 2 >7 8 5— 43 per cent. 

32,275— 5 per cent. 

526,091 — 52 per cent. 

446,623—45 per cent. 

24,844 — 3 per cent. 



516,011 — 51 per cent. 

452,264—45 per cent. 

34,645— 4 per cent. 

728,300 — 61 per cent. 

433,228—36 per cent. 

32,827 — 3 per cent. 

712,665 — 60 per cent. 

424,232 — 36 per cent. 

36,313— 4 per cent. 



Growth of the Party in Philadelphia 

The growth of the Republican party in Philadelphia has been 
remarkable when contrast is made between the Presidential votes of 
1856 and 1900, though it has not been uniform, the Democrats occa- 
sionally developing considerable force, but the Republicans in Phila- 
delphia have won every Presidential contest since and including that 
of i860. 

In its first contest, that of 1856, the Republican party in Phila- 
delphia was a minority faction. It polled in a straight ticket less than 
too votes, but fusion was made with the Fillmore ticket and on the 
Fusion vote Fremont, the Republican candidate, polled a little less 
than 8,000. Buchanan's vote was 38,222; Fillmore's, 24,898; Fre- 
mont's, 7892. For purposes of comparison the vote is thus stated : 



Republican, 
Opposition, 



1856. 



7,892 — 11 per cent. 
63,120 — 89 per cent. 



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In i860 the fusion was the other way round. Lincoln, the Re- 
publican candidate, had a plurality over the Fusion ticket of 9,000 
and a clear majority of 2,000. His vote was 39,223 ; that for the Fu- 
sion Democratic ticket, 30,053, of which the straight Douglass ticket 
polled 21,619, while Bell had 7131. 

Tlie party strength was : 

i860. 

Republican, 39,223 — 51 per cent. 

Opposition, 37^4 — 49 P er cent - 

In 1864 the Democratic candidate for President was a Philadel- 
phian, and he polled an extra vote : 

1864. 

Republican, 5 T .555 — 55 P^ 1 " cent. 

Democratic, 42,647 — 45 per cent. 

After the war the Democrats exhibited remarkable vitality, the 
vote with Grant as the Republican candidate being : 

1868. 
Republican, 60,985 — 52 per cent. 

Democratic, 55J73 — 48 per cent. 

The nomination of Horace Greeley as the Democratic candi- 
date in 1872 wrecked the party and the vote in Philadelphia resulted: 

1872. 
Republican, 68,792 — 74 per cent. 

Democratic, 23,407 — 26 per cent. 

The Democrats revived in 1876 and reached high-water mark in 
1888, but were again demoralized by the nomination of Bryan, in 
1896, and since then have not offered serious opposition to the Re- 
publicans. The votes follow : 

1876. 

Republican, 77>994 — 55 P er cent - 

Democratic, 62,275—45 per cent. 

1880. 
Republican, 97,230—56 per cent. 

Democratic, 76,331—44 per cent. 

188 1 . 
Republican, 101,402—58 per cent. 

Democratic, 71,288—42 per cent. 




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1888. 




Republican, 
Democratic, 


1892. 


111,461 — 54 per cent. 
93»0S9—46 per cent, 


Republican, 
Democratic, 


1896. 


116,685 — 58 P er cent. 
84,470 — 42 per cent. 


Republican, 
Democratic, 




174,462 — 73 per cent. 
63*323— 2 7 P er cen *- 


Republican, 
Democratic, 


1900. 


173*657—75 P er cent - 
58,179 — 25 per cent. 



The Republican party started in 1856, with 11 per cent, of the 
vote; it had in i860 only 51 per cent., but in 1890 it polled 75 per 
cent.,or three-fourths of the whole vote ! 



PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 

Prior to 1804 each elector voted for two candidates for Presi- 
dent. The one receiving the greatest number of votes was declared 
President and the one receiving the next highest was declared Vice 
President. For a time there was only one party, the Federalist, 
which became in time the National Republican, the Whig, and 
finally the Republican party. The first opponents of the Federalists 
were known as Republicans, but the name of this party (that of 
Jefferson) was afterwards changed to Democratic. The results of 
the several Presidential elections have been as follows : 



WASHINGTON FIRST TERM. 

The candidates in 1789 were George Washington, of Virginia, 
and John Adams, of Massashusetts, both Federalists. Ten States 
voted, Washington being elected President by 69 electoral votes out 
of 73, and Adams Vice President, by 34 votes. 



WASHINGTON — SECOND TERM. 



The same candidates appeared in 1792, when 15 States cast 135 
electoral votes, of which 132 were for Washington and yy for John 
Adams. 



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JOHN ADAMS. 

The first party- Division occurred in 1796, when John Adams 
was the candidate of the Federalists and Thomas Jefferson, of Vir- 
ginia, of the Republicans (now Democrats). Sixteen States cast 
138 electoral votes, 71 for Adams and 68 for Jefferson. Adams, 
therefore, became President and Jefferson Vice President. 

THOMAS JEFFERSOX FIRST TERM. 

Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, and Aaron Burr, of New York, 
both Republicans (Democrats), were the candidates in 1800. The 
vote was a tie, 73 being cast for each candidate, and the House of 

7 f:rtrt::: : t5 ::; :::e :'; bill::. sele::::. Jefreri :c ::r Preside::: 
and Burr for Vice President. 

THOMAS JEFFERSOX SECOXD TERM. 

In 1804 the contest was between parties, Thomas Jefferson, of 
Virginia, being the Republican (Democratic) candidate, and C. C. 
Pinckney, of South Carolina, the Federalist candidate. Jefferson 
was elected, by 162 electoral votes against 14 for his competitor, 
r-rirre II :: ::: :•: IV V::-: -.-?.« e".e-::e 

this time onward (with one exception, 1824) the Vice President 
always represented the same party as the President. 



JAMES MADISG>: — Fl 

In 1808 James Madison, of Virgi 



the Republicans (Democrats) and C. C. Pincki 
the Federalists. Opposition to the party of Je 
grow, but Madison was elected by 122 votes 
Clinton, of Xew York, was re-elected Vice President. 



candidate of 

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47. George 



JAMES MADISON SECOXD TERM. 

The Federalists continued to grow in strength and in 1812 they 
polled 89 electoral votes for DeWitt Qinton, of New York, against 
128 for Madison, but the war of 1812 had the usual effect of conflicts, 
that of strengthening the party in power, as was shown at the next 
election. Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, was elected Vice Presi- 
de:::. 

-.-.111s :::y-;z — 7:7.57 71 ■ 

In 1816 James Monroe, of Virginia, Republican (Democrat), 
had 183 electoral votes, against 34 cast for Rufus King, of New 
York. Daniel D. Tompkins, of Xew York, was elected Vice Presi- 
dent. 




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LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 61 



JAMES MONROE — SECOND TERM. 

Monroe broke down almost all opposition, and at the election of 
1820, his opponent, John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, received 
only one electoral vote to Monroe's 231. Daniel D. Tompkins was 
re-elected Vice President. 

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 

Notwithstanding the apparent unanimity in 1820, four years 
made a great political change. In 1824 John Quincy Adams, of 
Massachusetts, representing a coalition of the parties opposed to the 
Administration, was elected President by the House of Representa- 
tives on the first ballot. He had received only 84 electoral votes, 
against 99 for Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, and the popular vote 
for him was only 108,740, against 153,544 for Jackson, but as neither 
candidate had a majority in the Electoral College, the choice devolved 
upon the House of Representatives, which chose the minority candi- 
date. John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, was elected Vice Presi- 
dent, by the Electoral College. 

ANDREW JACKSON FIRST TERM. 

The voters revenged themselves at the next election (1828), 
when they gave Jackson 174 electoral votes, against 83 for John 
Quincy Adams, and a popular vote of 647,276, against 508,064 for 
Adams. At this election Jackson, dropping the old party title, ap- 
peared as a Democrat, and John Quincy Adams was the candidate of 
the National Republican party. John C. Calhoun was re-elected 
Vice President. 

ANDREW JACKSON SECOND TERM. 

Andrew Jackson was a candidate for the third time, in 1832, 
having as his opponent Henry Clay, National Republican, of Ken- 
tucky, and was re-elected by 219 electoral votes, against 49 for Clay. 
There was, however, no great change in the popular vote. Jackson 
received 687,502, against 530,189 for Clay. Martin Van Buren, 
of New York was elected Vice President. 

MARTIN VAN BUREN. 

At the election of 1836, Martin Van Buren, of New York, 
(Democrat), was chosen over W. H. Harrison (Whig), of Ohio, 
the electoral vote being 170 to 73. This was the first appearance of 
the Whig party. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, was elected 
Vice President. 



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W. H. HARRISON JAMES TYLER. 

Under the new name of Whigs the opposition to the Democrats 
flourished for a time, and at the election of 1840, won both by the 
electoral and the popular vote. W. H. Harrison, of Ohio, the Whig 
candidate, was elected President, by an electoral vote of 234, against 
60 for Martin Van Buren. The populai vote was : Harrison, 
1,275,016; Van Buren, 1,129,102. Harrison had won fame in fights 
with the Indians, especially at Tippecanoe, and the battle cry of the 
campaign was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." James Tyler, of Vir- 
ginia, was elected Vice President on the ticket with Harrison and 
soon succeeded to the Presidency. This election saw the birth of 
the Abolition party, with James G. Birney candidate for President 
and Francis G. Lemoyne for Vice President. It formed one of the 
important elements of the Republican party, as afterwards organized. 

JAMES K. POLK. 

In 1844 Henry Clay, who was as popular as Blaine became in 
later days, was the candidate of the Whigs, against James K. Polk, 
of Tennessee (Democrat), but in 'spite of Clay's popularity Polk won 
by 170 electoral votes to 105 for Clay, and also by the popular vote 
of 1,337,243, against 1,299,068 for Clay. Polk was a "dark horse," 
first of his kind in National Conventions. Van Buren was the lead- 
ing candidate, being supported by a majority of the delegates. Polk 
was not so much as mentioned until the eighth ballot, and he was 
nominated in the ninth. George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, was 
elected Vice President. 

ZACHARY TAYLOR. MILLARD EILLMORE. 

The election of Taylor followed immediately upon the annexation 
of Texas, which brought on the war with Mexico. The South then 
began its efforts to extend slavery, in opposition to the efforts of the 
Abolition party to suppress it, and slavery thenceforth became the 
main issue, until the irrepressible conflict brought on the Civil War, 
resulting in the emancipation of all the slaves. One of the purposes 
of the annexation of Texas was to strengthen the slave interest in the 
Senate. The growth of the West led to the admission of free States 
and the South wanted an opportunity to expand slave territory. 
Texas brought in two Senators from slave States, and, under the 
treaty, eight more might be admitted by subdivision of the State. 
The Mexican War was opposed as an unjust invasion of foreign 
territory, but was prosecuted to a successful conclusion, under Polk's 
administration. Gen. Zachary Taylor quickly won military fame 




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LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 63 

and popularity by his victories, and the Administration sought to 
check him by giving chief command to Gen. Winneld Scott and de- 
priving Taylor of his regular troops. The plan miscarried, for 
Taylor, with his depleted forces, beat off* Santa Anna, who 
had an army numerically five times as strong. The rout- 
ing of the Mexicans at Buena Yista made Taylor Presi- 
dent. The Democrats, in the meantime, were having trou- 
bles of their own. The famous "Wilmot proviso" was added to 
the bill for the acquisition of territory from .Mexico, the proviso de- 
claring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever 
exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the 
party shall be first duly convicted." The party split upon the Wil- 
mot proviso and this aided in the election of Taylor. They pre- 
sented a bold front, however, with Lewis Cass, of [Michigan, as their 
candidate for President. The Whigs nominated Zachary Taylor, of 
Louisiana, for President, and the Free Soil Democrats, supported by 
some Whigs, named [Martin Van Buren. The Native American 
party appeared in this campaign, but did not complicate matters, as 
it nominated Gen. Taylor for President.. Taylor was elected by 163 
electoral votes, to 127 for Cass. He had a popular plurality, but not 
a majority, the vote being, Taylor, 1,360,099; Cass, 1,220,544; 
Van Buren, 291,263. [Millard Fillmore was elected Vice President 
and succeeded to the Presidency, upon the death of Tavlor, July 9th, 
1850. 

FRANKLIN PIERCE. 

The Fillmore administration was occupied mainly with the 
question of the extension of slavery. The Clay compromise was ac- 
cepted and weakened the Whigs, for it permitted an extension of 
slavery in the Territories. Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was 
nominated by the Democrats for President, another dark 
horse, for he was not mentioned until the thirty-fifth bal- 
lot, and was nominated on the forty-ninth, defeating such 
well-known leaders as Cass, Buchanan and Douglas. The 
Whig Convention had difficulty in making choice between 
General Winneld Scott and Fillmore. They ran an almost even 
race, with a few votes for Webster, for 49 ballots, when Scott ran 
ahead sufficiently to get a clear majority on the fifty-third ballot. 
The vote on the first ballot was: Scott, 131; Fillmore, 133; Web- 
ster, 29. On the fifty-second ballot : Scott, 146 (one short of a 
majority); Fillmore, 119; Webster, 27; and on the fifty-third, 
Scott, 159: Fillmore, 112; Webster, 21. 

Pierce carried every State except [Massachusetts. Virginia, Ken- 



64 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

tucky and Tennessee, the electoral vote being 254 to 12, and the popu- 
lar vote, I, 601,274 for Pierce, to 1,386,580 for Scott. William R. 
King, of Alabama, was elected Vice President. 

JAMES BUCHANAN. 

The Whig party broke down under the crushing defeat of 1852, 
but the Native Americans revived, and as Know Nothings, through 
secret lodges, began to have a great deal of influence in local elec- 
tions. The Democrats forced the slavery issue by repealing the 
Missouri compromise and thus helped to crystallize the forces that 
ultimately formed the Republican party. Pierce became a hopeless 
candidate for renomination and was beaten by James Buchanan, of 
Pennsylvania. The Republican party was organized about this time. 
It was a faction in New York in 1854; held its first State convention 
in Pennsylvania in 1855, and its first National Convention in Phila- 
delphia, in 1856. It was made up of Native Americans, old time 
Whigs, anti-slavery Democrats and the odds and ends of other 
ephemeral parties; but it had clearly cut principles, and soon grew 
to unexpected strength. In 1856 its candidate for President was 
Gen. John C. Fremont, of California. Fillmore was the candidate of 
the remains of the old Whig and the American party. How com- 
pletely the new Republican party had supplanted these older organi- 
zations was shown in the returns. The popular vote was : Bu- 
chanan, 1,838,169; Fremont, 1,341,264; Fillmore, 874,534; and the- 
electoral vote, Buchanan, 174; Fremont, 114; Fillmore, 8. J. C. 
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, was elected Vice President. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN FIRST TERM. 

Buchanan's administration, which was distinctly pro-slavery and 
culminated in the Kansas-Nebraska outrages and the John Brown 
raid, kept alive the slavery issues and greatly aided in the concen- 
tration of all opponents of slavery in the Republican party. Seward, 
of New York, was the leader of the party and its logical nominee for 
President, but he was deemed inexpedient by the leaders on account 
of opposition of the Know-Nothing wing, and, after a spirited con- 
test, Abraham Lincoln was nominated by the Republicans for Presi- 
dent, and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, for Vice President. The 
Democrats divided, the extreme Southern forces nominating Breck- 
enridge and Lane, while the Northern wing nominated Douglass and 
Johnson. John C. Bell, of Tennessee, and Edward Everett, of 
Massachusetts, were nominated by the Constitutional Union party, 
a conservative element of the old Whigs. Lincoln was elected by 




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LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 65 

a large majority in the Electoral College, getting 180 votes, against 
12 for Douglass, 72 for Breckenridge and 39 for Bell. He had" a 
plurality of the popular vote, but far from a majority, the vote being : 
Lincoln, 1,866,452; Douglas, 1,375,157; Breckenridge, 847,953; 
Bell, 590,631. The result of the election was no sooner made known 
than the Southern States began to secede from the Union, the War 
of the Rebellion followed, and when the next Presidential election was 
held, in 1864, only twenty-five States participated. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ANDREW JOHNSON. 

The Democratic party had had its greatest strength in the se- 
ceded Southern States, and, being deprived of their electoral votes, 
its candidate, General McClellan, was defeated, by 212 votes for 
Lincoln to 21 for McClellan. The popular vote for McClellan was 
strong, however. Lincoln received 2,213,665 and McClellan 1,802,- 
237. The soldier vote (included in the above) was, Lincoln, 116,- 
^Sy, McClellan, 33,748. Tennessee and Louisiana voted for 
Lincoln, but their votes were not counted. McClellan carried only 
New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky. Notwithstanding the over- 
whelming character of this victory many Republican leaders had been 
doubtful of the result and Lincoln had almost abandoned hope. 
Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, was elected Vice President and suc- 
ceeded to the Presidency upon the assassination of President Lincoln, 
in April, 1865. 

ULYSSES S. GRANT — FIRST TERM. 

The dissension fomented by the Johnson administration did not 
disrupt the Republican party as it was thought it would, for John- 
son had such few followers that they made no impression either in 
the nominating convention or the election. But the Republicans 
were forced to seek a new candidate and they were driven to Gen. 
Grant, the hero of the war, by the efforts of the Democrats to get 
him as their candidate. Grant had not been active in politics but 
the events of the war, and his quarrel with President Johnson, had 
led him to sympathize with the Republicans, and he consented to 
accept trie unanimous nomination that was tendered to him. The 
Vice Presidency had assumed a new dignity, owing to the assassina- 
tion of President Lincoln and the obvious possibility of succession, and 
there were half a dozen prominent candidates. Schuyler Colfax, of 
Indiana, was chosen, on the fifth ballot, the result being determined 
largely by the fact that Colfax came from a doubtful State. The 
Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour, who had been War Gov- 
ernor of New York, and chose Frank P. Blair, of Missouri, an old- 



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time Republican, for Vice President. Grant and Colfax were elected 
by 214 to 80 electoral votes and by a popular majority- of 300,000. 

ULYSSES S. GRAXT SECOND TERM. 

There was never any question about the renomination of Gen- 
eral Grant for a second term, for his opponents had deserted the party 
before the Convention met, and, under the name of Liberal Republi- 
cans, had named Horace Greeley, of Xew York for President, and B. 
Gratz Brown for Vice President. These nominees were afterwards 
accepted by the Democrats, who were very confident that, by the 
coalition, they could sweep the country. Although the Republican 
Convention renominated Grant by acclamation there was again a con- 
test for the Vice Presidential nomination, in which Schuyler Colfax 
was defeated by Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts. Grant and Wil- 
son were elected, by 286 electoral votes to 47 in opposition, and by 
a popular plurality- of more than 700,000. 

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 

The contest of 1876 was the most memorable in the history of 
Presidential elections. Blaine was the favorite candidate of the Re- 
publican party, but was opposed by a few powerful leaders in the 
Convention, among them Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and 
they succeeded in defeating him and nominated Rutherford B. Hayes. 
The Democrats selected their most astute political leader, Samuel J. 
Tilden, of Xew York, who had won national fame by his successful 
battle to overthrow Tammany. The election was very close, in fact, 
it turned upon the votes of a few reconstructed Southern States, and 
was ultimately decided by a single electoral vote. There was such 
dread of civil war resulting from the count of the votes that the two 
parties in Congress decided to refer contested returns to an Electoral 
Commission, composed of five Senators, five Representatives, four 
Supreme Court Justices and a fifth Justice to be chosen by the other 
four. The Commission was so constituted that there were seven 
Republican members and seven Democratic. The Justices chose 
Justice David Davis to complete the Court, but he declined, as he 
had just been elected to the United States Senate. They thereupon 
chose Justice Bradley, a Republican, and the Court, composed of 
eight Republicans and seven Democrats, voted on part}* lines 
throughout the contest. The votes of Louisiana, Florida and South 
Carolina were counted for Hayes and gave him 185 electoral votes to 
184 for Tilden. 'William A. Wheeler, of fork, was elected Vice 

President. 




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LIFE MEMBER 



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JAMES A. GARFIELD CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 

Again, in 1880, Blaine' was the prominent candidate for the Re- 
publican nomination, but again was defeated. The leaders who 
had opposed him in 1876 united upon Ulysses S. Grant for a third 
term, and controlled 306 votes in the convention, 378 being required 
to nominate. Blaine had 284, but could not gain, and ultimately the 
opponents of Grant, including the Blaine delegates, united upon 
James A. Garfield, of Ohio, who had entered the Convention at the 
head of his State delegation to support Senator Sherman. Chester 
A. Arthur, of New York, was nominated for Vice President, to con- 
ciliate the Conkling forces. For a long time it appeared as though 
Garfield would be defeated through factional opposition, but just be- 
fore the election the Republicans got together, and Gen. Winfield S. 
Hancock, the Democratic candidate, was beaten by defections in the 
Tammany ranks in New York city. Garfield had a small plurality 
on the popular vote and was elected by 214 electoral votes to 155 for 
Hancock. New York was the pivotal State, as, if its 35 electoral 
votes had gone to Hancock, instead of Garfield, the former would 
have been elected. The factional quarrel broke out again after the 
election, and the bitterness of the controversy led to the assassination 
cf Garfield by Guiteau. Previous thereto Conkling had ended his 
political career by petulantly resigning from the Senate. The death 
of Garfield brought Vice President Arthur to the Presidency. He 
served with distinction, but failed to get the nomination to succeed 
himself. 

GROVER CLEVELAND FIRST TERM. 

The Republican Convention met at Chicago, on June 3d, 1884. 
with ex-Representative John R. Lynch, of Mississippi (colored) as 
temporary and ex-Senator John B. Henderson, of Missouri, as per- 
manent President. Vice President Arthur was a candidate for the 
nomination, but James G. Blaine, of Maine, led on the first ballot, and 
was nominated on the fourth. Gen. John A. Logan was nominated 
for Vice President, on the first ballot, by a nearly unanimous vote. 
The party was apparently united by these nominations, and down to 
the last days of the contest — indeed until the official vote of New 
York was declared — Blaine was expected to win. The Democratic 
Convention nominated Grover Cleveland, of New York, who had 
suddenly risen into National fame by the enormous majority given 
for him as Governor of his State — the pivotal State in the contest — 
and by his successful administration. Tammany opposed him in the 
Convention and would doubtless have encompassed his defeat at the 
polls but for the famous speech of Rev. Dr. Burchard, at the close 



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of the campaign. Thomas H. Hendricks, of Indiana, was nominated 
for Vice President. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler became the candidate 
for President of the National Party, successor to the Greenback 
party, as well as of the Anti-Monopoly party, and Governor John P. 
St. John, of Kansas, was named by the Prohibitionists. These third 
parties controlled many more votes in Xew York than were needed 
to decide the result, for the contest proved to be very close. In the 
last days of the campaign Blaine ended a long stumping tour at Xew 
York. There he dined with Jay Gould, a most impolitic act on the 
eve of election. He also attended a reception by ministers of the 
gospel, at which Rev. Burchard delivered the address of welcome. 
In the course of- his speech he referred to the opposition as the party 
"of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." Blaine, if he noticed the re- 
mark at all. failed to see its effect, and uttered no disclaimer in his 
reply. It was used against him with fatal effect. His quarrel with 
Conkling. whom he had stamped as a "turkey cock," also cost him 
at least iooo votes in Conkling's home county of Oneida. It will 
be seen, therefore, that comparatively trivial matters lost him New 
York and the election, for the vote of New York was, Cleveland 
563.154; Blaine, 562,005 ; Butler, 16,994; St. John, 25,016. Cleve- 
land's plurality was only 1049, and he was in a minority of more than 
40,000. In the nation Cleveland won by a popular vote of 4,874,986, 
against 4,851.981 for Blaine; 175.370 for Butler, and 150.369 for St. 
John. Thus, for the first time in twenty-eight years, the Republican 
party was defeated in a national contest, and then by such a small 
margin that its followers, far from being discouraged, were inspired 
to fresh efforts. 

BENJAMIN HARRISON. 

Grover Cleveland was renominated in the Democratic National 
Convention of 1888. without opposition, but also without enthusiasm, 
for his administration had not pleased the active workers. Vice 
President Hendricks had died in office and ex-Senator Thurman, of 
Ohio, was nominated for Vice President. John Sherman, of Ohio, 
led the poll for six ballots, in the Republican Convention, but Benja- 
min Harrison gained steadily from the first and was nominated on 
the eighth ballot. Levi P. Morton, of New York, was nominated for 
Vice President. There were two Labor parties, besides the Prohi- 
bitionists, to present candidates. The campaign was well contested, 
New York being again the pivotal State, but there were no mistakes 
or accidents and Harrison won. carrying New York by 13,000 plu- 
rality, the Prohibitionists polling 30.000 votes. In the nation Cleve- 
land had a plurality, the popular vote being. Harrison. 5439.853 ; 




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LIFE MEMBER 



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Cleveland, 5,540,329; Fish, 249,506; Streeter, 146,935. The elec- 
toral vote was: Harrison, 233; Cleveland, 168. 

GROVER CLEVELAND SECOND TERM. 

The Republican Convention met at Minneapolis, June 7th, 1892, 
and renominated President Harrison, on the first ballot. At this 
Convention William McKinley came forward as a Presidential pos- 
sibility, dividing the opposition vote with James G. Blaine. Whitelaw 
Reid, of New York, was nominated for Vice President. There was 
bitter opposition to Cleveland in the Democratic Convention, but he 
was nominated, on the first ballot, with Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illi- 
nois, for Vice President. In this campaign the People's party ap- 
peared, with James B. Weaver, of Iowa, as its candidate for Presi- 
dent. It was made up of the odds and ends of third parties of pre- 
vious campaigns. The contest was warmly waged and ended in a 
victory for Cleveland, by 277 electoral votes, to 145 for Harrison, and 
22 for Weaver and the field. New York, which was carried by 
Cleveland, was no longer the pivotal State, for Cleveland would have 
been elected without its vote. The popular vote was : Cleveland, 
5,556,543; Harrison, 5,175,582; Weaver, 1,040,886; Bidwell, 255,- 
841. 

WILLIAM M'KINLEY FIRST TERM. 

In 1896 the Republicans nominated William McKinley, of Ohio, 
for President, on the first ballot, and Garret A. Hobart, of New Jer- 
sey, for Vice President, with almost equal unanimity. Cleveland had 
broken with his party on the money question and received no votes in 
the Convention. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, was nominated for 
President, on the fifth ballot, and Arthur Sewall, of Maine, for Vice 
President. The issue was clearly drawn, the Republicans favoring 
sound money; the Democrats declaring for "the free and unlimited 
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of 
any nation.'' The platform framed by Western Populists was radi- 
cal in the extreme. Many Democrats left the party and founded the 
Sound Money National Democratic Party, which nominated John M. 
Palmer, of Illinois, for President, and Simon B. Buckner, of Ken- 
tucky, for Vice President. All of the various branches of the Popu- 
list and Free Silver parties endorsed Bryan for President, and he 
carried on such a spirited campaign that it seemed as though he 
would sweep the country as he had swept the Democratic Conven- 
tion off its feet. But the Sound Money Democrats either voted di- 
rectlv for MeKinlev or, by support of Palmer, turned close States 
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for Bryan. McKinfcy had a large, popular majority, the vote being : 
McKinley, 7,111,607; Bryan, 6,731,635; Palmer, 134,645. 

WILLIAM M*KIXLEY THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 

An era of prosperity followed the inauguration of President 

linley and made him the logical candidate in 1900, but, as usual, 
the President had failed to satisfy some of the party leaders, and if 
they could have done so they would gladly have retired him when the 
Republican Convention met in Philadelphia, in June, 1900. Theo- 
dore Roosevelt of Xew York, had won fame during the Spanish 
American War and an effort was made to get his authority for a re- 
volt, but he steadfastly refused. When, however, McKinley had 
been renominated, Roosevelt could not withstand the enthusiasm of 
bis supporters and he was nominated for Vice President, against his 
protests. The Democrats renominated Mr. Bryan; reiterated the 
platform of 1896, and refused to conciliate in the least degree the 
Sound Money Democrats who had encompassed the defeat of their 
leader. The result of the election was a greater triumph for McKin- 
ley in 1900 than in 1896 — in fact, the greatest victory in the history 
of the party. 

The electoral vote was: McKinley. 292: Bryan, 155; and the 
popular vote: McKinley. 7.219.524: Bryan. 6.358.007. McKin- 
ley's plurality was 50,000 more than in 1896. 

The assassination of President McKinley. September 6, 1901, 
elevated \ 7 ice President Roosevelt to the Presidency, but without 
change of policy. 

CAMPAIGN OF T904. 

Preparations are now being made for the campaign of 1904. 
The Republican Convention is to be held in Chicago, June 21 : the 
Democratic Convention in St. Louis. Tulv 6. 



What the States Have Done Since 1900 






Plurality for Bryan, 1900, 40 ,374 

Plurality- for Jelks. Dem.. for Governor. 10:: 43,342 



" v , ::>.-.= 



Plurality for Bryan, 1000, 36,342 

Plurality for Davis. Dem. for Governor, 1902. _ ; ; 




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LIFE MEMBER 



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CALIFORNIA. 



Plurality for McKinley, 1900, 39>77Q 

Plurality for Pardee, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 2,553 



COLORADO. 



Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 29,661 

Plurality for Peabody, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 7,295 



CONNECTICUT. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 28,570 

Plurality for Governor (Rep.), 1902, 15-938 



DELAWARE. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 3*671 

Plurality for Cong. Candidates (Rep.) in 1902, 4,720 

Note. — The Democratic candidate for Congress was elected 
owing to the division among the Republicans. 



FLORIDA. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 20,841 

Xo State election in 1902. 

Democratic majority in Congressional Districts, 16,250 

GEORGIA. 

Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 46,665 

Plurality for Terrell, Dem., for Governor, 1902, 66,182 

IDAHO. 

Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 2,216 

Plurality for Morrison, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 5,853 

ILLINOIS. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 94,924 

Plurality for Rep. for State Treasurer, 1902, 89,773 

INDIANA. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 26,479 

Plurality for Rep. for Secretary of State, 1902, 35,564 

IOWA. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 9&,543 

Plurality for Rep. for Secretary of State, 1902, 79,214 



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KANSAS. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 23,354 

Plurality for Bailey, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 42,094 

KENTUCKY. 

Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 8,098 

Plurality for Democratic Cong. Election, 1902, 26,167 

LOUISIANA. 

Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 39438 

Plurality for Dem. Cong, Election, 1902, 18,171 

MAINE. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 28,613 

Plurality for Hill, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 27,490 

MARYLAND. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 13,941 
Plurality for Warfield, Dem., for Governor, 1903, 12,887 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 81,867 

Plurality for Bates, Rep., for Governor, 1903, 35,894 

MICHIGAN. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 104,584 

Plurality for Bliss, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 37,184 

MINNESOTA. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 77,56° 
Plurality for Van Sant, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 58,457 

MISSISSIPPI. 

Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 45,953 

Plurality for Democratic Cong. Election, 1902, 18,058 

MISSOURI. 

Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 37,831 

Plurality for Dem. Supt. of Public Ins., 1902, 44,684 

MONTANA. 

Plurality for Bryan in 1900, n,773 

Plurality for Dixon, Rep., for Congress, 1902, 5, 066 




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LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 



NEBRASKA. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 7,822 

Plurality for Mickey, Rep., for Governor, 1902 5,355 



NEVADA. 



Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 2516 

Plurality for Sparks, Dem., for Governor, 1902, 1,738 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 19,314 

Plurality for Rep. for Governor in 1902, 8,271 



NEW TERSEY. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 56,899 

Plurality for Murphy, Rep., for Governor, 1901, 17,133 



NEW YORK. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900. 143,606 

Plurality for Odell, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 9,75 2 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 24,671 

Plurality for Democratic Cong. Election, 1902; 74,696 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, *5,37 2 

Plurality for White, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 14,015 



OHIO. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 69,036 

Plurality for Rep. Sec. of State, 1902, 89,465 

OREGON. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, I3>I4 X 

Plurality for Dem. for Governor, 1902, 2j6 

Plurality for Rep. Cong. Election, 1902, 11,070 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 288,433 
Plurality for Pennypacker, Rep., for Gov., 1902, 156,410 



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RHODE ISLAND. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, : 3>97 2 

Plurality for Garvin, Dem., for Governor, 1902, 1,258 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Plurality for Bryan .in 1900, 43*654 

Plurality for Dem. for Governor, 1902, 31*817 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 14,986 

Plurality for Herrick, Rep., for Governor, 1902, 26,800 



TENNESSEE. 



Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 2 3>557 

Plurality for Frazier, Dem., for Governor, 1902, 39,952 



TEXAS. 



Plurality for Bryan in 1900, 136,792 

Plurality for Lanham, Dem., for Governor, 1902, 188,761 



UTAH. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 2 , : 33 

Plurality for Rep. Cong. Election, 1902. 5,5!4 



VERMONT. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 2 9>7 J 9 

Plurality for Rep. for Governor, 1902, 3,663 



VIRGINIA. 



Plurality for Bryan in 1900. 30> 2 I5 

Plurality for Democrats, Congress, 1902, 42,578 



WASHINGTON. 



Plurality for McKinley in 70,00, 12,623 

Plurality for Rep. for Congress, 1902, 25,000 



VIRGINIA. 



Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 21,137 

Plurality for Rep. for Congress, [902, 11.873 



iNSIN. 



Plurality for McKinley in igoo, 106,581 

Plurality for Rep. for Governor, 1902 47-599 




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WYOMING. 

Plurality for McKinley in 1900, 4,219 

Plurality for Rep. for Governor, 1902, 4>446 

The changes of sentiment indicated by the above returns as 
having taken place since 1900 are, "on the face of the returns," as 
follows : 

FROM REPUBLICAN TO DEMOCRATIC. 

Maryland, with 8 Electoral Votes 

Rhode Island, with 4 Electoral Votes 

FROM DEMOCRATIC TO REPUBLICAN. 

Colorado, with 4 Electoral Votes 

Idaho, with 3 Electoral Votes 

Montana, with 3 Electoral Votes 

If the changes here indicated should take place, the Republican 
electoral vote of 1904, compared with that of 1900, would be reduced 
to 290, and the Democratic electoral vote increased to 157. But 
there is no reason to class Rhode Island as Democratic. Its Demo- 
cratic Governor was elected for personal reasons. Transferring it 
to the Republican column the probable electoral vote of 1904 becomes 
Republican. 294; Democratic, 153. 

There are, however, other States which indicate a slump, al- 
though they did not turn over, viz. : New York, California and 
Oregon. They have these electoral votes : 

NEW YORK, 36 

CALIFORNIA, 9 

OREGON, 4 

Total, 49 

If they should all go Democratic the Republican electoral vote 
as above computed would be reduced to 245 and the Democratic 
Increased to 202. There is no reason to anticipate this result, but it 
is the worst to be apprehended from the returns of elections held 
since 1900. The Republicans could, in fact, concede to the Demo- 
crats California, Maryland, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island 
and allow them to retain all the States carried for Bryan in 1900 and 
they would still win out by an electoral vote of 231 to 216. 



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Roosevelt's Address to the League 

The National League of Republican Clubs met in St. Paul in 
1900 and on the afternoon of July 16 President Roosevelt, then Gov- 
ernor of New York, made a famous address to its members. He 
was introduced by President Stone, of the League, and the great 
crowd present cheered him to the echo. 

Governor Roosevelt said: 

We have come here to begin the work of a campaign more vital to 
American interests than any that has taken place since the close of the 
Civil War. We appeal not only to Republicans, but to all good citizens 
who are Americans, in fact as well as in name, to help us in re-electing 
President McKinley. It was indeed of infinite importance to elect him 
four years ago. Yet the need is even greater now. Every reason then 
obtained in his favor obtains now, and many more have been added. Four 
years ago the success of the populistic democracy would have meant fear- 
ful misery, fearful disaster at home; it would have meant the shame that 
is worse even than misery and disaster. To-day it would mean all this, and 
in addition the immeasurable disgrace of abandoning the proud position we 
have taken, of flinching from the great work we have begun. 

We appealed for President McKinley before, asserting what he would 
do if President from our knowledge of what he had done in lesser posi- 
tions. Now we appeal for him, asking that the promise of a second term 
be judged by the performance of his first, and pledging that the wonderful 
work so triumphantly begun in his first term shall in his second be car- 
ried to an even more triumphant conclusion. We ask support for Presi- 
dent McKinley because of what he has actually done, of what he now stands 
for and typifies, and because of the marvelous work that has been ac- 
complished under his administration. We ask the support of all upright 
citizens because against him are arrayed the forces of chaotic evil, because 
of the breeding menace to our moral and industrial welfare, which is im- 
plied in the present attitude and purpose of the populistic Democracy. 

We know definitely what we believe and we say it outright. Our 
opponents who represent all the forces of discontent, malice and envy, 
formed and formless, vague and concrete, can hardly be said to know what 
they really do believe, because the principles they profess, if put forth 
nakedly, are so revolting, even to their own followers, that they like, at 
least to try, to wrap the mantle of hypocrisy around them. They rant 
about trusts, but they have nothing practicable to advance, in the way of 
remedy; nor is this to be wondered at, when one of the makers of their 
platform, the representative from New York and the leader of their organi- 
zation in New York, are both themselves among the most prominent 
stockholders in the worst trust to be found to-day in the United States, 
the Ice Trust, which had justly exposed itself to the criticism which our 
opponents often unjustly apply to every form of industrial effort. They 
have invented the imaginary danger of imperialism, and about that they 
also rave. 

Yet so conscious are they of the hollowness of their attack, so well 
aware that to follow out their professions would mean to trail the Ameri- 
can flag in the dust, that they are obliged to pretend that really after all 
they are for expansion. After infinite labor they finally did decide that 
they still believe in free silver. This decision was reached in their cornmit- 
tee by a vote of 26 to 24; so that it appears that they only have 52 per 
cent, of faith in their 48-cent dollar after all. Even this amount of faith 




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LIFE MEMBER 



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STORY OF THE PARTY 77 

they were able to reach purely by the aid of Hawaii, and yet four years 
ago they objected as much to our expansion over Hawaii as they now ob- 
ject to our expansion over the Philippines! 

THEIR ONE UNEQUIVOCAL POSITION. 

Their only unequivocal position is that in favor of free silver at a 
ratio of 16 to i, for they have sought, at least, to make the pretense of 
qualifying, or at least of clouding, what they mean when they ask for the 
relaxation of the bonds of justice and order and the abandonment of our 
position as a great nation manfully doing its part in the world work that 
must be done by all great nations. True to their nature, they have sought 
to subordinate the one issue on which they take a decisive stand, and they 
declare that they have subordinated the question of free silver to other 
questions. Now, as a matter of fact, they cannot decide which one of their 
various heresies the people shall regard as most important. 

There is little need to argue against free silver now. What need we 
say against a doctrine which would work a sweeping and destructive revo- 
lution in our financial system, and yet which is advanced by a party only 
after a violent contest in which nearly half of that party has opposed it? 
At Kansas City it took the Democrats two days to determine upon the 
free silver plank in their platform. The rest of the planks did not need 
an hour's work. And yet they solemnly ask that the two-days' plank shall 
be relegated to a secondary position. Indeed, if their attitude on this 
question were not full of such terrible possibilities of tragedy to the nation 
it would amount to a farce. 

It is hardly necessary to say that not merely free silver, but the very 
threat of free silver would paralyze our whole industrial life. The election 
of Mr. Bryan would cause such economic and financial chaos as to reduce 
this whole country to a condition of fearful and acute distress that cannot 
be imagined even by those who keep fresh in mind the dark days of '93. 

KEYNOTE OF CONVENTION INSINCERITY. 

Now, as to expansion. It hardly seems worth while to waste any 
time upon what the Kansas City people call imperialism and militaryism. 
The dominant note of the Kansas City Convention was insincerity. The 
convention which nominated Mr. Bryan in 1900 was in character infinitely 
below that which nominated him in 1896. In 1896, for all their wild and 
dangerous folly, his advocates had at least the merit of sincerity in their 
bitter fanaticism. However wrongheaded, they knew what they believed, 
and they stated it without fear. In 1900 their actions were determined 
purely by policy, and they are pandering to the worst and most degraded 
passions in our national life. 

They reasserted the doctrines of anarchy which they had preached in 
'96, not because they longer believed in them, but because they hoped by 
announcing them to attract to themselves all men of unsound and violent 
mind. 

When it came to dealing with our foreign policy, they deliberately 
strove to foster resistance to the national flag where such resistance al- 
ready exists, and to call it into being where it does not now exist, with the 
hope of gaining some petty party advantage at no matter what cost of 
ruin to the nation. They mouth about imperialism and militaryism, know- 
ing that there is not one word of truth in what they say, knowing, if they 
know anything, that their words are putting a premium upon trouble in 
every island from which the Spaniards have been driven; and caring noth- 
ing because they wish to purchase party success even at the cost of dis- 
honesty to the flag, of death and suffering to the men who fight under the 
flag. Bitter indeed is the cup they hold out to the nation to drink, and 
thrice bitter it will be for the nation if it does not spurn it. 



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What they say about Cuba and Porto Rico need not detain us for a 
moment. In Porto Rico we now have Governor Allen in charge. We have 
established a system under which the island is advancing by leaps and 
bounds to prosperity. In Cuba we have put General Leonard Wood in 
charge, and all the preliminary steps have been taken to give to the people 
of the island their own government; our pledge to Cuba shall of course be 
kept General Wood's administration is a synonym for honesty and clean- 
. r.ess, and the minute that fraud was discovered in the postal department 
the wrongdoers were hunted down in unsparing pursuit. 

We now come to the Philippines, and to the general question of ex- 
pansion. Many of the positions taken by the Populistic Democracy at 
the moment are so palpably dishonest and maintained in such palpable bad 

that to state them is sufficient 

When under Jefferson the great West beyond the Mississippi was ac- 
quired, when largely through the instrumentality of Jackson Fl6rida was 
added to the Union., the new provinces with their Indian populations were 
governed precisely and exactly on the theory under which the Philippines 
are now governed. President Jefferson secured the Louisiana purchase 
just as President McKinley secured the Philippines, and Andrew Jackson 
warred against the Seminoles when we had acquired Florida from Spain 
precisely as <_-- icArthur is now ¥ airing against the bandits among 

Tagals in Luzon. 

JEFFEBS - HONOR M'KINLEY's RIGHT. 

Unless we are willing to deprive Jefferson and Jackson of the honor 
which has been held to be peculiarly theirs, we cannot deny the same high 
praise to President McKinley. At Kansas City the men engaged in 
preaching the gospel of dishonor and repudiation solemnly asserted that 
"Imperialism abroad will lead quickly and inevitably to despotism at 
home.'' You men of Minnesota and the Dakotas who are here this even- 
ing, can appreciate the fatuousness of that statement by the simple process 
of thinking whether your liberties have been abridged by the return of the 
Minnesota and Dakota troops who won such honor for themselves in the 
Philippines. 

5: if is with their cant about militarism, and ''intimidation and op- 
pression at home" as following what they are pleased to call "conquest 
abroad." We cannot argue with them on this proposition, because no 
serious man thinks for one moment that they believe what they assert 

In '98 or '99 you yourselves saw regiments and brigades and divi- 
r'rom Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines to be disbanded 

swallowed up in the mass of the people, of volunteers and of regulars, 
to resume their ordinary work in fort and cantonment; and after greeting 
them on the day they returned the bulk of people would never have been 
able to tell except by the newspapers whether they had come back or not 
Of all idle chatter the talk of danger of militaryism is the idlest The army 
we have now is relatively to the population of the country less in size than 
it has been again and again during the last century and a quarter, in times 
when we had own Indians to guard again 

IN" THE PHILIPPINE- 

:e Philippines, even the Kansas City Convention felt that 
they had to propose some policy, and what they propose is that we should 

ernnicnt: second, independence, and, 
third, protection from outside interference. 3y the order in which they 
put the showed their estimate of their importance. 

In China we see at this moment the awful tragedy that is following 

exactly such a movement as that which the so-called anti-imperialists 

have - Philippine- The - in China are the precise 




HENRY C. DUNLAP 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 79 

analogues and representatives of the Aguinaldian rebels in the Philippines. 
Had we adopted the "policy of scuttle" in the Philippines, the policy which 
our political opponents now champion, the streets of Manila would have 
witnessed such scenes as those of the streets of Peking. A more wicked 
absurdity than the Kansas City proposition for dealing with the Philip- 
pines was never enunciated by the representatives of a political party. 

BLOOD OF HEROES RESTS ON HEADS AT HOME. 

I would ask those who by their word have encouraged the warfare of 
the Filipinos against us to recall the letter of General Lawton written just 
before his death, in which he pointed out that the blood of his soldiers 
reddened the hands of the men at home who encouraged our foes abroad. 

There are doubtless many worthy and amiable gentlemen of humani- 
tarian tendencies, especially in the Northeast, who oppose expansion now, 
as men like them have always opposed expansion. In 1811, when Louisiana 
was on the point of being admitted to the Union, and the country beyond 
the Mississippi — the country now carved into the great States from which 
so many of my hearers come — was being governed territorially, a proto- 
type of the modern anti-imperialistic, the Hon. Josiah Quincy, addressed 
the House of Representatives in language that with very slight variation 
might be used by his successors to-day. 

I am addressing at this moment citizens from the very States, the 
possibilities of whose existence appeared so terrible to the excellent Mr. 
Quincy. You yourselves are the fruits of the expansion which he regarded 
as fraught with such immeasurable disaster to the nation. You yourselves 
represent the results of that policy which was followed from the days of 
Washington and Jefferson, through those of Jackson down to the time 
when Seward purchased Alaska — the great American policy which has 
again been applied under President McKinley. 

EXPANSION A HARBINGER OF PEACE. 

Remember that expansion does not bring war; it ultimately brings 
peace. It is of advantage to all and especially to the people thereby lifted 
out of savagery. We should hail the advance of every civilized nation 
over barbarous peoples, so long as that advance is not made in some form 
prejudicial to the rest of mankind. I wonder how many of this audience 
are aware that up to 1830 the United States paid tribute to Algiers to se- 
cure immunity for our sailors and commerce from the Algierian corsairs. 
The reason we did not pay tribute after that date was because in that 
year France began to expand over Algiers. War followed, and lasted a 
number of years, and there were foolish people who then wrote the praise 
of Algerian independence just exactly as there are foolish people now who 
talk about Alguinaldian independence. So Russia has advanced over 
Turkestan and "brought peace in her train. 

Every instance of expansion has been of immeasurable benefit to all 
mankind, and more and more the civilized people are beginning to realize 
that they can work hand in hand with one another. 

The best of all things is where a new nation can be brought into the 
circle of civilization as Japan has been brought, and where such is the 
case America will ever be foremost to greet the new civilized Power and 
to work with her as we work with Japan. But to refrain from doing our 
duty in the world would be merely ultimately to invite the fate of China. 
The Chinese policy has always consistently been against expansion, and 
she offers to-day the best example of the fruits of such a policy when logi- 
cally carried out. 

Expansion then means in the end not war, but peace. But like every 
other great good, it can normally be achieved only by effort at the outset. 
Woe to us if we shrink from such effort. Woe if we fail to do our duty be- 



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cause the first step seems hard to the weaklings and the men of little 
heart. If we are to retain the respect of mankind we must do no wrong 
and must not endure wrong from others. We must strive with earnest 
good faith to secure the steady betterment of the populations over which 
we have assumed control. 

This election is more important than any that this country has seen 
save only the election of '64, and we have the right to appeal to every 
man worthy to call himself a good citizen, that he shall stand by us in this 
contest for upright and honest legislation and administration at home 
and abroad, for the upholding of the flag and the great privilege of doing 
the world's work as beseems a great world Power. Study the Kansas City 
platform and you cannot help realizing that their policy is the policy of 
infamy, that their triumph would mean misery so widespread that it is 
almost unthinkable and a disgrace so lasting that more than a generation 
would have to pass before it could be wiped out. 

Governor Roosevelt concluded his peroration at exactly 9.30 o'clock, 
when the audience rose en masse and over 6,000 voices shook the air for 
about five minutes. 




I . G. FOUSE 

LIFE Ml MBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 81 



President McKinley's Last Speech 

(From Public Ledger Almanac) 

President McKinley delivered an address at the Pan-American Ex- 
position on September 5 which attracted world wide attention because of 
its liberal views. All the leading newspapers of the country commented 
upon it the next day. It was the uppermost topic of discussion when the 
news was flashed over the wires that the President had been shot. Fresh 
significance was given to the address by the assassination of the President, 
for it became his last public utterance. For this reason and because of the 
intrinsic value of the President's remarks the speech is here reprinted: 

President Milburn, Director General Buchanan, Commissioners, 
ladies and gentlemen: I am glad to be again in the city of Buffalo, and ex- 
change greetings with her people, to whose generous hospitality I am not 
a stranger, and with whose good will I have been repeatedly and signally 
honored. To-day I have additional satisfaction in meeting and giving wel- 
come to the foreign representatives assembled here, whose presence and 
participation in this Exposition have contributed in so marked a degree 
to its interest and success. To the Commissioners of the Dominion of 
Canada and the British colonies, the French colonies, the Republics of 
Mexico and of Central and South America, and the Commissioners of 
Cuba and Porto Rico, who share with us in this undertaking, we give the 
hand of fellowship and felicitate with them upon the triumphs of art, sci- 
ence, education and manufacture, which the old has bequeathed to the new 
century. 

TIMEKEEPERS OF PROGRESS. 

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world's 
advancement. They stimulate the energy, enterprise and intellect of the 
people, and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden 
and brighten the~daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of 
information to the student. Every Exposition, great or small, has helped 
to some onward step. Comparison of ideas is always educational, and as 
such instructs the brain and hand of man. Friendly rivalry follows, which 
is the spur to industrial improvement, the inspiration to useful invention 
and to high endeavor in all departments of human activity. It exacts a 
study of the wants, comforts and even the whims of the people and recog- 
nizes the efficacy of high quality and new prices to win their favor. The 
quest for trade is an incentive to men of business to devise, invent, improve 
and economize in the cost of production. Business life, whether among 
ourselves, or with other people, is ever a sharp struggle for success. It 
will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be 
clinging to the clumsy and antiquated processes of farming and manu- 
facture and tr^e methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would 
be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. But though commer- 
cial competitors we are, commercial enemies we must not be. 

WORK WELL DONE. 

The Pan-American Exposition has done its work thoroughly, pre- 
senting in its exhibits evidences of the highest skill, and illustrating the 
progress of the human family in the Western Hemisphere. This portion 
of the earth has no cause for humiliation for the part it has performed in 
the march of civilization. It has not accomplished everything; far from it. 
It has simply done its best, and without vanity or boastfulness; and recog- 



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nizing the manifold achievements of others, it invites the friendly rivalry 
of all the powers in the peaceful pursuits of trade and commerce, and will 
co-operate with all in advancing the highest and best interests of humanity. 
The wisdom and energy of all the nations are. none too great for the 
world's work. The success of art, science, industry and invention is an 
international asset and a common glory. 



WHOLE WORLD IN TOUCH. 

After all, how near one to the other is every part of the world. Mod- 
ern inventions have brought into close relations widely separated peoples 
and made them -better acquainted. Geographic and political divisions will 
continue to exist, but distances have been effaced. Swift ships and fast 
trains are becoming cosmopolitan. They invade fields which a few years 
ago were impenetrable. The world's products are exchanged as never be- 
fore, and with increasing transportation facilities come increasing knowl- 
edge and larger trade. Prices are fixed with mathematical precision by 
supply and demand. The world's selling prices are regulated by market 
and crop reports. We travel greater distances in a shorter space of time 
and with more ease than was ever dreamed of by the fathers. Isolation is no 
longer possible or desirable. The same important news is read, though in 
different languages, the same day in all Christendom. The telegraph keeps 
us advised of what is occurring everywhere, and the press foreshadows, 
with more or less accuracy, the plans and purposes of the nations. Market 
prices of products and of securities are hourly known in every commercial 
mart, and the investments of the people extend beyond their own national 
boundaries into the remotest parts of the earth. Vast transactions are con- 
ducted and international exchanges are made by the tick of the cable. 
Every event of interest is immediately bulletined. The quick gathering and 
transmission of news, like rapid transit, are of recent origin, and are only 
made possible by the genius of the inventor and the courage of the in- 
vestor. It took a special messenger of the Government, with every facility 
known at the time for rapid travel, nineteen days to go from the city of 
Washington to New Orleans with a message to General Jackson that the 
war with England had ceased and a treaty of peace had been signed. How 
different now. 

UTILIZING THE TELEGRAPH. 

We reached General Miles in Porto Rico by cable, and he was able 
through the military telegraph to stop his army on the firing line with the 
message that the United States and Spain had signed a protocol suspend- 
ing hostilities. We knew almost instantly of the first shots fired at San- 
tiago, and the subsequent surrender of the Spanish forces was known at 
Washington within less than an hour of its consummation. The first ship 
of Cervera's fleet had hardly emerged from that historic harbor when the 
fact was flashed to our capital, and the swift destruction that followed was 
announced immediately through the wonderful medium of telegraphy. So 
accustomed are we to safe and easy communication with distant lands that 
its temporary interruption, even in ordinary times, results in loss and in- 
convenience. We shall never forget the days of anxious waiting and awful 
suspense when no information was permitted to be sent from Pekin, and 
the diplomatic representatives of the nations in China, cut off from all com- 
munication, inside and outside of the walled capital, were surrounded by an 
angry and misguided mob, that threatened their lives; nor the joy that 
thrilled the world when a single message from the Government of the 
United States brought through our Minister the first news of the safety 
of the besieged diplomats. 




J. WARNER HUTCHIXS 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 83 



INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. 



At the beginning of the nineteenth century there was not a mile of 
steam railroad on the globe. Now there are enough miles to malce its 
circuit many times. Then there was not a line of electric telegraph; now 
we have a vast mileage traversing all lands and all seas. God and man 
have linked the nations together. No nation can longer be indifferent to 
any other. And as we are brought more and more in touch with each 
other the less occasion is there for misunderstanding, and the stronger 
the disposition, when we have differences, to adjust them in the court of 
arbitration, which is the noblest form for the settlement of international 
disputes. 



NATIONAL PROSPERITY. 

My fellow citizens, trade statistics indicate that this country is in a 
state of unexampled prosperity. The figures are almost appalling. They 
show that we are utilizing our fields and forests and mines, and that we are 
fuiinishing profitable employment to the millions of workingmen througout 
the United States, bringing comfort and happiness to their homes, and 
making it possible to lay by savings for old age and disability^ That all 
the people are participating in this great prosperity is seen in every Am- 
erican community and shown by the enormous and unprecedented deposits 
in our savings banks. Our duty is the care and security of these deposits, 
and their safe investment demands the highest integrity and the best busi- 
ness capacity of those in charge of these depositories of the people's 
earnings. 

We have a vast and intricate business, built up through years of toil 
and struggle, in which every part of the country has its stake, which will 
not permit of either neglect or of undue selfishness. No narrow, sordid 
policy will subserve it. The greatest skill and wisdom on the part of 
manufacturers and producers will be required to hold and increase it. Our 
industrial enterprises, which have grown to such great proportions, affect 
the homes and occupations of the people and the welfare of the country. 
Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our products 
have so multiplied that the problem of more markets requires our urgent 
and immediate attention. Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep 
what we have. No other policy will get more. In these times of marvel- 
ous business energy and gain we ought to be looking to the future, 
strengthening the weak places in our industrial and commercial systems, 
that we may be ready for any storm or strain. 



RECIPROCITY. 

By sensible trade arrangements which will not interrupt our home 
production, we shall extend the outlets for our increasing surplus. 

A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is mani- 
festly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. 
We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything 
and buy little or nothing. If such a thing were possible, it would not be 
best for us or for those with whom we deal. We should take from our 
customers such of their products as we can use without harm to our indus- 
tries and labor. Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful 
industrial development, under the domestic policy now firmly established. 
What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent 
abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet, and we 
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our sales and productions., and thereby make a greater demand for home 
labor. 

The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and 
commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A 
policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Re- 
ciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of 
retaliation are not. 

If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed, for revenue or 
to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be 
employed to extend and promote our markets abroad"? 

OUR MARKETS ABROAD. 

Then, too, we have inadequate steamship service. New _ lines of 
steamers have already been put in commission between the Pacific coast 
ports of the United States and those of the western coasts of Mexico and 
Central and South America. These should be followed up with direct 
steamship lines between the eastern coast of the. United States and South 
American ports. One of the needs of the times is direct .commercial lines 
from our vast fields of production to the fields of consumption that we 
have but barely touched. Next in advantage to having the thing to sell 
is to have the convenience to carry it to the buyer. We must encourage 
our merchant marine. We must have more ships. They must be under 
the American flag, built and manned and owned by Americans. These will 
not only be profitable in a commercial sense; they will be messengers of 
peace and amity wherever they go. We must build the Isthmian canal, 
which will unite the two oceans and give a straight line of water com- 
munication with the western coasts of Central and South America and 
Mexico. The construction of a Pacific cable cannot be longer postponed. 

In the furtherance of these objects of national interest and concern 
you are performing an important part. This Exposition would have 
touched the heart of that American statesman whose mind was ever alert 
and thought ever constant for a larger commerce and a truer fraternity 
of the republics of the new world. His broad American spirit is felt and 
manifested here. He needs no identification to an assemblage of Ameri- 
cans anywhere, for the name of Blaine is inseparably associated with ^he 
Pan-American movement which finds this practical and substantial ex- 
pression, and which we all hope will be firmly advanced by the Pan-Ameri- 
can Congress that assembles this autumn in the capital of Mexico. The 
good work will go on. It cannot be stopped. These buildings will disap- 
pear; this creation of art and beauty and industry will perish from sight, 
nut their influence will remain to 

''Make it live beyond its too short living. 
With praises and thanksgiving." 

VICTORIES OF PEACE. 

Who can tell the new thoughts that have been awakened, the am- 
bitions fired and the high achievements that will be wrought through this 
Exposition? Gentlemen, let us ever remember that our interest is in con- 
cord, not conflict, and that our real eminence rests in the victories of 
peace, not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here may 
be moved to higher and nobler effort for their own and the world's good, 
and that out of this city may come, not only greater commerce and trade 
for us all, but. more essential than these, relations of mutual respect, con- 
fidence and friendship which will deepen and endure. 

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, 
happiness and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peo- 
ples and Powers of earth. 




THEODORE B. STULB 

LIFE MEMBER 



11 



STORY OF THE PARTY 85 



Assassination of President McKinley 

President McKinley, who had been resting for a month in Canton, 
Ohio, went to Buffalo on September 4, 1901, to deliver an address on 
September 5, which had been set apart as President's day. This address, 
would have been a notable public utterance if the President had not been 
assassinated; as it turned out it became the farewell address of Mr. Mc- 
Kinley to the American people. 

On Friday, September 6 — the day after the delivery of the speech— the 
Presidential party visited Niagara Falls. Returning to Buffalo early in 
the afternoon Mrs. McKinley was sent to the house of Mr. Milburn, Presi- 
dent of the Exposition, where the President and his wife were guests, 
while President McKinley drove to the Temple of Music, where he was to 
hold a public reception. He was accompanied by Mr. Milburn, Secretary 
Cortelyou and others Taking his place the President, guarded by secret- 
service agents, began to receive the tens of thousands who sought to shake 
his hand. The reception had not lasted many minutes before a youth ap- 
proached the President who had his hand wrapped in a handkerchief. The 
President held out his hand, but the youth instead of accepting it fired two 
shots from a revolver concealed in his bandaged hand. One shot passed 
through the President's stomach and lodged in the muscles of his back. 
The other probably struck a button and glanced off. It bruised the flesh, 
but fell harmlessly to the floor when his clothing was removed. In an in- 
stant the assassin was knocked down and secured, but the fatal wound had 
been inflicted. He gave the name of Nieman, but was soon recognized as 
Leon Czolgosz, a native American descended from Polish emigrants. His 
home was in Cleveland, Ohio, and his parents were hard working, re- 
spectable people. Czolgosz denied that he was the agent of Anarchists, 
but admitted that he had been influenced by Anarchistic teachings, chiefly 
those of Emma Goldman, whose lectures he had attended. The Goldman 
woman and many other Anarchists were arrested, but there was no evi- 
dence to connect them with the crime except, in a general way and they 
were finally discharged from custody. 

The President was taken at once to the hospital on the Exposition 
grounds, and there a surgical operation was performed which at first gave 
promise of success. For several days the bulletins issued by the surgeons 
promised recovery of their patient, but on the Friday following the shoot- 
ing his condition became alarming, and on Saturday, September 14, he 
died. 

The autopsy showed that he had been correctly treated, but that the 
wound inflicted was necessarily fatal. Nature had failed to repair the dam- 
age done by the assassin's bullet, partly because of the President's age, 
partly because of his physical condition, for, although in good condition 
to withstand ordinary attacks, he had led a sedentary life for so many 
years that he was ill prepared to overcome the effects of a wound in vital 
parts. 

As the end approached the President chanted the first lines of his 
favorite hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee," and a little later he said, "Good 
bye all! good bye! It is God's way. His will be done." These were his 
last words 

The mourning over his death was universal, for, in spite of political 
difference of opinion, President McKinley was generally respected. There 
was no party and no faction of a party represented by his assassin. Just 
two weeks after the President had left Canton in perfect health his re- 
mains were deposited in Westlawn Cemetery near the graves of his two 
children. In the meantime a public funeral had been held at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 



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The assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was tried with all the forms of law. He 
was given eminent counsel, who were, however, unable to offer any de- 
fense, for experts found him to be sane and he never exhibited any regret 
for his crime. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree on Sep- 
tember 24, and sentenced to be electrocuted. On October 29 he paid the 
penalty of his crime, and his body and all his belongings were destroyed by 
quicklime after the execution. 



President Roosevelt's Pledge 

Theodore Roosevelt hurried to Buffalo upon receiving news of the 
President's death, and on September 15 took the oath of office as President 
in the library of the residence of Eusley Wilcox, a personal friend. Im- 
mediately thereafter he said: "In this hour of deep and terrible national 
bereavement, I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue absolute- 
ly unbroken the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity 
and honor of our beloved country.'*' 

His first act was to ask the members of the Cabinet to retain their 
portfolios, in order to aid him to conduct the Government on the lines 
laid down by him whose policy he had declared he would uphold. 




EDWARD T. DAVIS 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 87 

The Young Man in Politics 

J. HAMPTON MOORE 

(From the Philadelphia Press, December 27, 1903.) 

President Roosevelt is the most conspicuous example in the United 
States to-day of the "Young Man in Politics." None of our Presidents 
ever came into the office at his age — he was forty-two when called 'to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of President William McKinley — and 
should he be elected in 1904 he will have been the youngest President ever 
chosen by the people at the early age of forty-five. 

And yet in "the strenuous life" for which he has become famous 
there have been crowded incidents that go to make up a career as notable 
as that of most of his predecessors of maturer years. In fact, if youthful 
activity be taken in the abstract, there is more in the record of Theodore 
Roosevelt that appeals to the hopeful young American than can perhaps 
be found in the corresponding period of any other of the nation's cele- 
brities. 

It resembles strongly in some respects the life of Alexander Hamil- 
ton, whose progress in public affairs before he had reached the age of 
thirty has been so often quoted as remarkable. It is something of a 
coincidence, too, that Hamilton, whose range of usefulness compassed the 
field of letters, the rostrum, the battlefield, finance and statesmanship, on 
lines fairly comparable to those of Roosevelt, was an even century in ad- 
vance of the latter in birth and scope of operations. 

Like Hamilton, Roosevelt began to write and make speeches while 
yet in his 'teens; like Hamilton, he took the serious, thoughtful side. In 
other words, he began to discuss public questions when older men were not 
inclined to be seriously receptive. It is the same old story that has been 
sung from the beginning of time — "Too young." It is the cry that tests the 
mettle of which men are made. It is the "dare" of human experience 
which makes or breaks the spirit of budding manhood. 

To the credit of Theodore Roosevelt it must be admitted he had "the 
right kind of stuff in him." He had greater competition than Alexander 
Hamilton, and to that extent must work the harder for public recognition. 
The "crime of being young" did not deter him. It never does when spunk 
and character combine to win. 

At twenty-three Theodore Roosevelt was one of the Republican 
minority in the New York Legislature. Three years later he advocated the 
election of Edmunds for President in the National Republican Convention. 
In 1886, then but 28 years of age, having won a conspicuous place in New 
York public life, he received the Republican nomination for Mayor. That 
was the year the" Democrats had at the head of their ticket the dis 
tinguished citizen, Abram S. Hewitt. The famous single-taxer, Henry 
George, also became a candidate, making a triangular fight which stirred 
New York to the very center. 

The brilliant campaign of the youthful standard bearer of Republi- 
canism in the^ Tammany stronghold against odds palpably unsurmountable, 
is easily within the memory of most young men. The Democrats won in 
that great struggle and, retiring to his ranch in Dakota, Theodore Roose- 
velt laid the foundation for that strong sympathy -which the people of the 
West always accord his name. He worked, and wrote, and spoke; he rode, 
and hunted, and hardened his muscles; he strengthened the body to sus- 
tain the mind. 



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His appointment to the National Civil Service Commission came at 
the age of 31; then, in rapid succession, followed his dashing service as 
Police Commissioner of New York city, his resignation as Assistant Sec- 
retary of the United States Navy at the declaration of the war with Spain, 
and the fulfilment of his novel idea of organizing the Western cowboys for 
active service in Cuba. From San Juan Hill to the Governorship of New 
York was the next step, and thence through the Vice-Presidency to the 
highest office in the land. 

This, in brief, is the story of the foremost "Young Man in Politics" — 
a story of vigorous, high-purposed endeavor, successful beyond parallel. 
It might be entitled ''From the Cradle to the White House in Forty-two 
Years." It is a title applicable to the able young ruler who presides over 
the destiny of the nation, the Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy,_a 
giant among those who were statesmen in his youth, the guardian and 
almoner of the veterans who battled for their country and his, wheri\ he, an 
infant, reposed in his nurse's arms. 

From every point of view his career has been singularly in touch with 
the accepted ideals of Young America, and especially with Young Ameri- 
can Republicanism. He has aimed high, worked hard, taken his opportuni- 
ties and made the most of them; he combined in forty-two years ,; the 
spirit of '76" with the dash and heroism of '98. He has left the evidences 
o'f a strong and intelligent citizenship wherever he has moved, and so 
wrought that all his works, physical, intellectual, domestic or public, may 
rightfully appeal to the admiration of coming generations. 

While the National Republican League, with its membership of more 
than 500,000 active young men of the United States, is not permitted by 
its Constitution to indorse candidates for office, even so high an office as 
Chief Executive, in advance of the action of regularly constituted Repub- 
lican conventions, the life of our President, without regard to his official 
station, may be taken fairly as a text for this article. 

The League stands for ''The Y T oung Man in Politics;" it stands for 
patriotism and high civic purposes; it aims to interest young men in every 
State of the Union in public affairs; it assumes that all men should be 
good politicians in order to be good citizens: it teaches the strenuous life 
in politics; taking high ideals, it strives actively, earnestly, on practical 
lines for honorable mastery in civic affairs. As it is constituted to-da}', the 
League is the volunteer force of the regular army of Republicans. 

The National party has its regular national organization. This or- 
ganization is composed of men who stand for the principles of the Repub- 
lican party and control the machinery by which they are applied Each 
State of the Union has its regular Republican committee which works on 
similar lines in harmony with the national body. 

Official party business is done through these organizations. When 
the campaign is on, the Official Committee puts its shoulder to the wheel 
and starts the machinery going. When the campaign is over the machine 
to a certain extent "rests upon its oars" and suffers from the rust and dust 
of waste and inactivity. 

The cool and deliberate methods of the regular party machinery as 
applied by the national and State committees are always so serious and so 
fraught with the importance of achieving the desired triumph, that many of 
the threads of organization and of party fealty are lost between campaigns. 
The National Committee becomes a scattered body without headquarters; 
the State committees in most instances shut up shop and retire temporarily 
from business. 

Meanwhile the seeds of dissension are growing: young men are 
coming to the front and are drifting into various lines of thought. Many 
of the latter, with the assurance that is pardonable at the age of maturity, 
take up fads and fancies, the result of reading or of theoretical training, 
which not only endanger their usefulness as public men but prejudice their 




EDWARD P. EVANS 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 89 



own opportunities as useful and successful units; moreover, the successful 
achievements of the war-horses of the party lead them in fits of over- 
confidence to rely entirely too much upon their own strength and some- 
times to ignore the rightful claims of worthy and responsible aspirants. 

In these periods of doubt and danger the National Republican 
League, with its thousands of clubs, stands constantly on guard. Since its 
organization, in 1887, the headquarters have never been closed on working 
days. The clubs which compose it constitute a perennial propaganda. 

Into these clubs the young men of the country who seek a knowledge 
of politics are inducted. Here they are kept in constant touch with the 
progress of affairs. Here they learn the practical politics, which, though 
they sometimes shatter the boyish ideals, serve to safeguard and defend 
as ''fire against fire" the practical or even subtle methods the political ad- 
versary and enemy of his country would not fail to employ. 

Undoubtedly thousands of young men are won to the Republican side 
each year through the clubs of the country. Some may differ as to the 
wisdom of these organizations and they are sometimes slightingly referred 
to by the men whose leadership depends upon old methods and old ma- 
chinery. There is a standing grievance which springs not alone from a 
patriotic motive against "too many statesmen." The leader whose iron 
rule has chained his followers in unofficial bonds, is never pleased to see 
the power slip from his grasp. Men who are well fixed in public station 
dislike to be told to "move on." 

But notwithstanding all this, the League has gone ahead, arousing 
and encouraging young men in season and out of season. In many cam- 
paigns it has borne the brunt of the fight. During the past two years the 
most harmonious relations have been established between League workers 
and regular party workers in many of the States. 

The policy of the present administration of the League has been to 
worl^in harmony with the constituted Republican authorities and to have 
the younger worker stand side by side with the old, reaching out for sup- 
port and confidence where the animosities of the leader had prevented the 
achievement of the desired results. 

Under the present system, which is happily growing stronger and 
stronger throughout this country and which is being built upon a sub- 
stantial foundation for effective work in 1904, young men are being taught, 
first, to be Republicans for the sake of the party and the country; second, 
to be not indifferent and grumbling citizens, but active, vigorous and ag- 
gressive workers in the cause that brings to all the people confidence and 
prosperity. 

Theodore Roosevelt fought his way step by step to the highest office 
in the gift of the people. He may not have been welcome at the start, but 
he had the energy, the pluck and the spirit that could not be kept down; 
he literally carved his way to fame. 

What American boy does not like, to look upon a picture of this kind? 
He reads of Lincoln, the Rail Splitter, and Garfield, the Towpath Boy, 
with unfeigned admiration; he hears of the achievements of distinguished 
statesmen and leaders, but nothing so appeals to his native spirit as earn- 
est, fearless, aggressive fighting American manhood. 

_ The League sets its ideals high. It believes in the rights and oppor- 
tunities of American youth. It demands the maintenance of Republican 
policies upon purely patriotic grounds. It believes that education, agita- 
tion and organization are essential to the maintenance of national progress 
and domestic happiness, and to that end it labors for Republican su- 
premacy. 



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Call for the Republican Convention of 1904 

The text of Chairman Hanna's call for the National Convention 
follows : 

To the Republican Electors of the United States: 

In accordance with established custom and in obedience to the in- 
structions of the National Convention of 1900, the National Republican 
Committee directs that a National Convention of delegate representatives 
of the Republican party be held at the City of Chicago, in the State of 
Illinois, for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice- 
President to be voted for at the Presidential election, Tuesday, November 
8, 1904, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly 
come before it, and that said convention shall assemble at 12 o'clock noon, 
on Tuesday, the 21st day of June, 1904. 

The Republican electors of the several States and Territories, the 
District of Columbia, Alaska and Indian Territory and all other electors, 
without regard to past political affiliation, who believe in the principles 
of the Republican party and indorse its policy, are cordially invited to 
unite under this call in the selection of candidates for President and Vice- 
President. 

Said National Convention shall consist of a number of delegates-at- 
large from each State equal to double the number of United States Sena- 
tors to which each State is entitled, and for each Representative-at-Large 
in Congress, two delegates-at-large. From each Congressional district 
and the District of Columbia, two delegates. From each of the Territories 
of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Hawaii and Indian Territory, six 
delegates. From Alaska, four delegates. For each delegate elected to said 
convention an alternate delegate shall be electd to act in case of the ab- 
sence of the delegate, such alternate delegate to be elected at the time 
and in the manner of electing the delegate. 

All delegates shall be elected not less than thirty days before the 
meeting of the National Convention. Delegates-at-large shall be elected 
by popular State and Territorial Conventions, of which at least thirty 
days' notice shall have been published in some newspaper or newspapers of 
general circulation in the respective States and Territories. 

The Congressional district delegates shall be elected by conventions 
called by the Congressional Comimittee of each district, in the manner_ of 
nominating the candidates for Representative in Congress in said district, 
provided that in any Congressional district where there is no Republican 
Congressional Committee the Republican State Committee shall appoint 
from among the Republican residents in such district a committee for 
the purpose of calling a District Convention to elect delegates to represent 
said district. 

The election of delegates from the District of Columbia shall be held 
under the direction and supervision of an Election Board, composed of 
Chapin Brown, George H. Harris and John F. Cook. 

Such Board shall have authority to fix the date of such election and 
to arrange all details and regulations incident thereto, and shall provide 
for a registration of the votes as cast, such registration to include the name 
and residence of each voter. 

The Territory delegates shall be elected in the manner of nominating 
candidates for delegates in Congress, and delegates from Alaska and In- 
dian Territory shall be elected by popular convention. 




JOHN KELLEY 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 91 

All notices of contests shall be submitted in writing, accompanied by 
a printed statement, setting forth the grounds of contest, which shall be 
filed with the Secretary of the National Committee twenty days prior to 
the meeting of the National Convention. Contests will be acted on by the 
National Convention in the order of the date of filing of notice and state- 
ment with the Secretary. 

M. A. HANNA, Chairman. 
PERRY S. HEATH, Secretary. 



DEATH OF CHAIRMAN HANNA 

Marcus Alonzo Hanna died on February 15th, after an illness 
of two weeks, and funeral services were held at Cleveland February 
19th, the highest honors being paid to his memory in Washington 
and throughout the country. Governor Herrick, of Ohio, declined 
to be a candidate for Senator, but was recognized as Hanna's suc- 
cessor as leader of the Republican forces of the state. Gen. Charles 
Dick was elected to succeed Mr. Hanna as United States Senator. 
On February 20th, Perry S. Heath resigned his office of Secretary 
of the Republican National Committee. The vacancies on the 
National Committee were filled temporarily by the Vice-Chairman, 
Postmaster- General Henry C. Payne, assuming the chairmanship, 
and Elmer Dover assistant secretary, taking the place of Mr. Heath. 



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Governors of Pennsylvania 

UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1790 

Thomas Mifflin, Dec : 21, 1790. to Dec. 17, 1799. 
Thomas McKean, Dec. 17, 1799. to Dec. 20, 1808. 
Simon Snyder. Dec. 20, 1808, to Dec. 16. 181 7. 
William Findlay, Dec. 16 , 181 7, to Dec. 19. 1820. 
Joseph Heister, Dec. 19. 1820.. to Dec. 16. 1823. 
John Andrew Shulze. Dec. 16, 1823. to Dec. 15, 1829. 
George Wolfe. Dec. 15. 1829, to Dec. 15, 1835. 
Joseph Ritner, Dec. 15, 1835. to Jan. 15, 1839. 

UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1838 

David Rittenhouse Porter, Jan. 15, 1839, to Jan. 21, 1845. 

Francis Rhawn Shunk, Jan. 21, 1845. to J u b" 9- 1848. 

Shunk resigned July 9. 1848, and his successor did not take the 

oath of office until July 26. 
William Freame Johnston, July 26, 1848. to Jan. 20, 1852. 
William Bigler, Jan. 20, 1852, to Jan. 16, 1855. 
James Pollock, Jan. 16, 1855, to Jan. 19, 1858. 
William Fisher Packer, Jan. 19, 1858, to Jan. 15, 1861. 
Andrew Gregg Curtin, Jan. 15. 1861. to Jan. 15, 1867. 
John White Geary, Jan. 15. 1867, to Jan. 21, 1873. 

UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1873 

John Frederick Hartranft, Jan. 21, 1873, to J an - ^ 1879. 
Henry Martin Hoyt. Jan. 18, 1879, to J an - x 6, 1883. 
Robert Emory Pattison. Jan. 16, 1883. to Jan. 18, 1887. 
James Adams Beaver, Jan. 18, 1887, to Jan. 20, 1891. 
Robert Emory Pattison, Jan. 20, 1891, to Jan. 15, 1895. 
Daniel Hartman Hastings, Jan. 15, 1895, to Jan. 17, 1899. 
William A. Stone. Jan. 17, 1899. to Jan. 20. 1903. 
Samuel W. Pennypacker. Jan. 20. 1903, to . 



United States Senators from Pennsylvania 

William Maclay. 17S9-1791. 
Robert Morris, 1789-17 - 
Albert Gallatin, 1793- 1794. 
James Ross. 1 794-1803. 
William Bingham, 1795-1801. 
John P. G. Muhlenberg-. 1801. 




JOSEPH T. TAYLOR 

LIFE MEMBER 



12 



STORY OF THE PARTY 93 



George Logan, 1 801-1807. 

Samuel Maclay, 1803- 1808. 

Andrew Gregg, 1807-1813. 

Michael Leib, 1 808-1814. 

Abner Leacock, 1813-1819. 

Jonathan Roberts, 1814-1821. 

Walter Lowrie, 181 9- 1825. 

William Findlay, 182 1- 1827. 

William Marks, 1 825-1 831. 

Isaac D. Barnhard, 1827-1831. 

George Mifflin Dallas, 1831-1833. 

William Wilkins, 1 831 -1834. 

Samuel McKean, 1833- 1839. 

James Buchanan, 1834-1845. 

Daniel Sturgeon, 1 839-1 851. 

Simon Cameron, 1845- 1849. 

James Cooper, 1849- 185 5. 

Richard Brodhead, 1851-1857. 

William Bigler, 1855-1861. "' 

Simon Cameron, 185 7-1 861. 

David Wilmot, 1861-1863. 

Edgar Cowan, 1861-1867. 

Charles R. Buckalew, 1863- 1869. 

Simon Cameron, 1867-1877. 

John Scott, 1 869- 1 875. 

William A. Wallace, "1875-1881. 

J. Donald Cameron, 1877-1897. 

John I. Mitchell, 1881-1887. 

Matthew Stanley Quay, 1887-1899. 

Boies Penrose, 1897 . 

Matthew Stanley Quay, 1901 . 

Matthew Stanley Quay's second term expired March 4, 1899. 
The Legislature of 1899 took 79 ballots, but failing to elect his suc- 
cessor, adjourned. He was thereupon appointed Senator by Gover- 
nor Stone, but the Senate refused to accept the commission given him 
by the Governor and the office remained vacant until January 15, 
1 90 1, when he was elected for the balance of the term, beginning 
March 4, 1899. The term of Senator Boies Penrose will expire 
March 4, T909. 



94 



REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 



Popular Vote for President- 


-1896. 






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54,737 

37,512 
146,170 

26,271 
110,285 

16,804 

11,288 

60,091 
6,324 
607,130 
323,754 
289,293 
159,345 
218,171 

22,037 

80,465 
136,959 
278,976 
293,582 
193,501 
5,130 
304,940 

10,494 

103,064 

1,938 

57,444 
221,367 
819,838 
155,222 

26,335 
525,991 

48,779 
728,300 

36,437 
9,281 

41,042 
148,773 
167,520 

13,491 

51,127 
135,368 

39,153 
105,368 
268,135 

10,072 


107,137 

110,103 

121,629 

158,674 

56,740 

13,424 

30,683 

94,232 

23,192 

464,523 

305,753 

223,741 

126,660 

217,890 

77,175 

32,301 

104,735 

90,530 

236,714 

139,626 

56,363 

363,667 

42,537 

115,999 

7,802 

21,271 

133,675 

551,396 

174,488 

20,686 

474,882 

46,662 

427,125 

14,459 

58,798 

41,225 

163,651 

290,862 

64,607 

10.179 

154,709 

51,646 

94,480 

165,523 

10,369 


2,147 

889 

2,573 

1,717 

1,808 

355 

654 

5,613 

197 

9,796 

3,056 

3,192 

4,611 

4,781 


6,462 


24,089 






Arkansas 




893 




1,730 


21,744 

2,389 


1,611 
159 

1,223 

1,147 
329 
453 


1,046 
386 


Colorado 


Connecticut 


4,234 

877 
1,778 
2,708 

6,390 
2,145 
4,516 
1,209 
5,019 
1,834 
1,870 
2,507 
11,749 
6,879 
3,230 
1,071 
2,355 

2,885 




2,053 
1,090 




Florida 








Idaho 






793 

2,268 

352 


Indiana 






Kansas 


46,194 

2,487 


620 


Kentucky 


587 
2,114 




Louisiana 






1,570 
5,918 
2,998 
5,025 
4,365 

485 
2,196 

186 
1,243 




Maryland 


136 


Massachusetts 

Michigan. 


15,181 


1,995 


Minnesota 




915 

595 

183 

228 
3,985 
17,667 


Mississippi 

Missouri 


7,517 


293 


Montana 






Nebraska 




797 


Nevada 


575 
379 




New Hampshire 

New Jersey 


779 

5.614 

16,052 

675 

358 

5,068 

919 

19,274 

1,160 


3,520 

6,373 

18,950 


49 


New York 






North Carolina 




247 


North Dakota 


1,875 

977 

11,000 

1,166 
828 

1,951 

5,046 
21 
1,331 
2,129 
1,668 
675 
4,584 








Ohio 


26,015 
6,103 


2,716 


Oregon 


1,683 
558 

108 


Pennsylvan ia 


870 


Rhode Island 




South Carolina.. 


4,525 
79,572 

458 




South Dakota 


683 
3,098 
1,786 








Texas 




Utah 






733 
2,350 

968 
1,216 
7,509 

136 




Virginia 




Washington 




148 


West Virginia 








Wisconsin 


346 




286 












Total 


7,107,304 


6,292,423 


130,753 


133,542 


240,657 


32,545 


13,955 




Plurality 


814,881 



















Whole vote, 13,952,179. 

There was fusion on the electoral ticket of the Democi'ats and Populists, and in 
some States Silver Republicans, in the following States : Arkansas, California, Colo- 
rado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, 
Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, 
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wis- 
consin and Wyoming. In some of the States, like Illinois and Kansas, there were 
Bryan-Watson tickets run by the Middle-of-the-Road Populists. 

It has been impossible to separate the Populist from the Democratic vote in the 
States in which there was a fusion of. those parties. In some of the States, like Illinois 
in which the two parties voted for the same electors, but upon separate tickets, county 
officers, in making returns to the Secretaries of State, have combined the votes on 
electors, and it is impossible to say how the vote should be divided. In such cases the 
vote classed under the head "Bryan- Watson" is no indication of the strength of the 
People's party, while at the same time it gives too large a vote to the Democrats. 




HARRY HUNTER 

LIFE MEMBER 



STORY OF THE PARTY 



95 



Popular Vote for President— 1900. 



States, 



Alabama 

Arkansas 

California 

Colorado 

Connecticut 

Delaware 

Florida 

Georgia. 

Idaho 

Illinois, 

Indiana 

Iowa 

Kansas 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Maine 

Maryland 
Massachusetts 
Michigan 
Minnesota 
Mississippi 
Missouri. . . 
Montana , 
Nebraska 

Nevada 

New Hampshire 
New Jersey 

New York 

North Carolina 
North Dakota, 

Ohio 

Oregon 

Pennsylvania. 
Rhode Island. . 
South Carolina 
South Dakota.. 

Tennessee 

Texas 

Utah 

Vermont 

Virginia 

Washington . . . 
West Virginia. 

Wisconsin 

Wyoming 



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714 




908 




1,373 


672 


663 


254 


259 




299 




382 


145 


2,610 
903 






352 



4.284 



Plurality 861,517 



518 



Whole vote, 13,970,605. 

* The vote given above is for the highest elector on each of the several tickets ; in a 
number of states the Democratic vote given is for the fusion ticket consisting of the 
Democratic, People's and Silver-Republican parties. 



96 



REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 



Official Vote of Pennsylvania for Presidential Electors, 1900.* 


Counties. 


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3,718 

71,780 
6,443 
6,759 
4,790 

13,952 
9,749 
8,625 
9,263 
6,303 

10,476 

971 

4,222 

4,684 

13,809 
3,002 
7,955 
3,157 
2,954 
7,705 
5,587 

14,673 

13,794 
3,254 

11,816 
9,637 
1,309 
6,483 
1,039 
2,427 
4,645 
5,687 
5,950 
1,805 

16,763 

23,230 
6,343 
7,089 
9,775 

21,793 
7,750 
6,319 
6,950 
2,591 
1,264 

17,051 
1,292 
9,849 
8,366 
3,400 
173,657 
694 
3,224 

15,327 
2,517 
6,677 


3,967 

27,311 
4,438 
4,076 
3,445 

19,013 
4,528 
4,211 
7,287 
4,465 
7,168 
514 
4,149 
4,339 
6,214 
3,472 
6,066 
2,879 
4,982 
7,000 
5,428 
7,390 
4,249 
3,105 
7,281 
7,650 
714 
4,500 
1,224 
3,674 
1,989 
1,767 
3,063 
1,621 

14,728 
8,437 
2,754 
3,050 

10,438 

16,470 
7,427 
3,427 
4,916 
1,842 
3,054 

11,208 
1,875 

11,412 
7,989 
2,440 

58,179 
1,236 
2,147 

14,496 
1,319 
2}151 


124 

1,874 
221 
364 
101 
315 
398 
610 
195 
492 
322 

40 
150 
215 
788 
235 
680 
182 
439 
624 
361 
761 
311 
116 
624 
607 
109 
' 184 

31 
111 
191 
334 
480 

77 
806 
592 
911 
461 
238 
936 
897 
500 
473 
149 
191 
395 

69 
495 
502 

78 
1,419 

26 
295 
280 

38 
248 


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1,187 
3 
5 
2 

65 

69 
3 

27 
5 

50 
1 
8 
2 

14 
1 
110 
2 
5 
8 
6 
7 
9 

12 
149 

39 

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2 
48 
4 
13 
5 
5 

59 
8 
6 
7 
8 

"'6' 

2 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 

75 
4 
7 
8 
4 

46 
7 
4 
3 


18 




424 




24 




27 


Bedford 


25 


Berks ' 


243 


Blair 


11 


Bradford 


10 




25 


Butler 


13 




40 




1 




111 




7 




31 




6 


Clearfield 


41 




18 




7 




11 




3 




8 




30 


Elk 


9 


Erie 


291 




59 




1 




6 




1 




1 
2 
4 

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1 

87 

11 

14 

1 

50 

114 

15 

13 

46 

8 

1 

35 

1 

17 

41 

2 

290 

7 

7 

78 

1 

9 


5 

12 

29 

8 

1 

5 

8 

23 

1 

8 

12 
4 
6 
3 
2 
3 
14 
1 
6 
7 

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6 
5 


2 




1 




50 




24 








121 




90 




287 




16 


Lehigh 


13 




392 




211 




28 




37 




3 




3 




146 




1 




38 




46 




2 




1,297 


Pike 


2 


Potter 


46 


Schuylkill 


28 




1 


Somerset 


24 



* The vote given is that cast for the first elector named on each ticket. 



STORY OF THE PARTY 



97 



VOTE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS 


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1,266 


1,376 


138 


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5,019 
7,458 
2,810 


3,527 


510 


5 


22 


2 


Tioga 


2,638 
1,359 


373 


6 


8 


19 


Union 


97 




3 




Venango 


5,931 


4,014 


1,284 


9 


5 


1 


"Warren 


5,609 


2,500 


472 


20 


16 


28 




10,408 
3,229 


6,380 
2,647 


639 


21 


8 


65 


Wayne 


435 


2 


3 


26 


Westmoreland 


16,014 


11,010 


725 


194 


2 


151 




2,247 
12,327 


1,875 


142 


4 




3 




13,732 


428 


12 


7 


125 






Total 


712,665 


424,232 


27,908 


2,936 


638 


4,831 





SUMMARY. 

McKinley and Roosevelt 712,665 

Bryan and Stevenson 424,232 

Woolley and Metcalf 27,908 

Malloney and Renamel 2,936 

Barker and Donnelly 638 

Debs and Harriman 4,831 

Total 1,173,210 



93 • REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 



Philadelphia's Banking Institutions 

Philadelphia is noted for the stability and conservatism of its 
banks. No class of business men is less inclined to enter into dis- 
cussion that is purely political than the representatives of these insti- 
tutions, and yet none are so sensitive to the effects of legislation 
threatening the substantial interests of the country. 

Among the banks of Philadelphia is one which has the dis- 
tinction of being the oldest in the country and the only institution 
of its kind ever chartered by Act of Congress — the Bank of North 
America, presided over by Mr. John H. Michener, a citizen and busi- 
ness man, whose public service has been of a philanthropic order 
through his connection with the Board of City Trusts administering 
the great Girard Estate. 

The First National Bank, presided over for many years by Mr. 
George Philler, head of the Clearing House Association, is another 
of the great financial institutions, having a foremost position in finan- 
cial circles. Mr. Philler has recently been succeeded as President by 
Mr. Morton McMichael, for many years the Vice President. The 
cashier is Mr. Kenton Warne. 

Among the other substantial institutions may be mentioned the 
Eighth National Bank, headed by Mr. Charles Porter, a well-known 
manufacturer, with Mr. Samuel Bell, Jr., a leading merchant, as 
Vice President, and Mr. C. B. Cooke as cashier. 

In the centre of the city is the Market Street National Bank, of 
which Mr. George H. Earle, Jr., a leading financier, is President, 
and Mr. James F. Sullivan, widely known as a merchant and pro- 
gressive citizen, is Vice President. 

The National Bank of Germantown, of which Mr. Canby S. 
Tyson is President, occupies a special field, in the handsomest suburb 
of the city, now so attractively populated as to demand the services of 
just such a highly respected institution. 

Among the older banks is the Farmer's and Mechanics', of 
which Mr. Henry C. Stroup is President, a bank which has for many 
years been the fiscal agent of the city of Philadelphia, with a close 
relationship to the banking interests of the State. 

Occupying special fields of activity may be mentioned the Man- 
ufacturers' National Bank, of which Mr. William H. Heisler is Presi- 
dent, and the Union National Bank, having for its President Mr. 
David Faust, and Mr. William H. Carpenter, cashier. 



SKETCHES] 



•$• Sketches •f* 



J. HAMPTON MOORE 

PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. LIFE MEMBER UNION 
CLUB, PHILADELPHIA. 

Born in Woodbury, N. J., March 8, 1864; educated in public 
schools, and entered law office in Philadelphia at 13; became re- 
porter for Court Combination in 1880 ; joined staff of Public Ledger 
in 1883 becoming real estate and labor editor, under George W. 
Childs ; reported Johnstown flood and Homestead riots ; first Presi- 
dent Reporters' Club; became Secretary and Treasurer of famous 
Five O'Clock Club in 1890; Treasurer Tammany Pea Shore Fishing 
Company; Chairman Young Men's Republican Committee during 
Hastings and Warwick campaigns and Councilmanic campaign of 
1896, helped organize McKinley sentiment in Pennsylvania, in 
1896; member of Union League, Five O'clock Club, Stylus Club, 
Pen and Pencil Club, Young Republicans, Lincoln Club, Union Re- 
publican Club, Thirty- second Ward Republican Club, Dirigo Club, 
Wildey Club, and other political organizations, Apollo Lodge, 386 
F. and A. M., and other Masonic bodies ; associated in publication of 
Wayne Times and Suburban Life, which subsequently merged into 
the "Suburban Publishing Company," of which he is a Director; ap- 
pointed Chief Clerk by City Treasurer Oellers, in 1895 ; wrote ''The 
History of the Five O'clock Club" and "Fiveoclockiana," a collec- 
tion of original dining club poems, together with certain Spanish- 
American war books and other publications ; General Secretary of the 
Peace Jubilee celebration, in 1898; April 1899, appointed Secretary 
to Mayor Ashbridge; Secretary of Citizens' Committee to raise 
$100,000 Convention Fund and to receive and entertain Convention, 
which nominated McKinley and Roosevelt ; organized Allied Repub- 
lican Clubs of Philadelphia and vicinity to promote this work; 
elected City Treasurer of Philadelphia, 1900; elected Vice President 
Pennsylvania State League, at York, 1895 ; President, at Harris- 
burg, 1899; re-elected President, Philadelphia, 1900; at Chicago, 
October, 1902, elected President National League of Republican 
Clubs ; now arranging active co-operation of League with Repub- 
lican National Committee for campaign of 1904. 

LoFC. 



100 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

SID B. REDDING. 

TREASURER NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. 

Little Rock, Ark. 

Born in Somerset, Ky., September 25th, 1869. Subsequently 
resided at Little Rock, Arkansas. Academic and college education; 
served four years as Assistant Postmaster at Fort Smith; repre- 
sentative of large insurance interests ; clerk of United States District 
at Little Rock, Arkansas ; member of Quapaw Club, Lincoln Repub- 
lican Club, Country Club, Young Men's Athletic Association, and 
Little Rock Board of Trade. Campaigned in Missouri, 1888, for 
Harrison and Morton ; active in all regular campaigns since ; elected 
Secretary of State League of Arkansas, 1896, and since 1898 has 
been President of that organization : member of Arkansas Republican 
State Central Committee since March, 1896; delegate from Arkansas 
to Republican Xational Convention at Philadelphia in 1900; as 
Secretary of Arkansas delegation he cast the vote of that State for 
McKinley for President and Roosevelt for Vice President; elected 
Treasurer Xational Republican League, at Chicago Convention, 
1902, having been delegate to National League Conventions since 
1893. 



JAMES JAY SHERIDAN, 

VICE PRESIDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. 

Chicago, III. 

Born, Virginia City, Nevada, August 16, 1868; reared in Mich- 
igan, where he was admitted to the bar in 1893. When in the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, he encouraged the movement for the organiza- 
tion of clubs among college men to become a part of the National 
League; was President of the University of Michigan Republican 
Club, with a membership of more than a thousand. Later, when a 
student at Yale, was elected Vice President of the American Repub- 
lican College League. Since 1895, when he finished in college and 
entered the bar at Chicago, he has shown his interest in the National 
Republican League work, by giving effective aid to the officers. At 
the Chicago Convention in 1902. he was elected its Vice President. 
Elected President of Hamilton Club of Chicago, 1903. and headed 
club delegation which captured National Republican Convention for 
1904. 



SKETCHES 101 



ELBERT W. WEEKS * 

SECRETARY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. 

Guthrie Center, Iowa. 

Son of an original Republican ; became connected with League 
work in 1894; elected Secretary of Stajte League that year and 
served continuously as State Secretary since; also a stump speaker; 
elected Secretary National Republican League, 1900; re-elected at 
Chicago, 1902; elected member of Iowa Legislature, November, 
1903. 

UNION REPUBLICAN CLUB 



SAMUEL H. ASHBRIDGE 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born in Philadelphia, December 5th, 1849; educated in the pub- 
lic schools ; bookkeeper and coal merchant ; became Deputy Coroner 
in 1880; in 1888 was elected Coroner; re-elected for three successive 
terms; nominated for Sheriff but failed of election; in 1899 elected 
Mayor of Philadelphia; during his administration the water filtra- 
tion system, high-pressure fire pipe line service and other notable 
improvements were undertaken and many of them completed; on 
retirement became President of Tradesmen's Trust Company, a pros- 
perous and growing institution. 

GUSTAV BACHARACH 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Thirty-four years of age; educated in public schools of Phila- 
delphia ; active in political and patriotic organizations throughout the 
city and State; delegate to Mayor's Convention, 1900, also City 
Treasurer's Convention, 1898 and 1901 ; Past Master of Lodge No. 
3, F. and A. M., and an officer in Oriental Chapter of the Masonic 
Order; Treasurer of iVmerican Funeral Benefit Association of the 
United States and Past National Counsellor of J. O. of U. A. M. ; 
Representative of State Council, J. O. of U. A. M., and Treasurer of 
John A. Murphy Council, No. 16; member of Union Republican 
Club, Anti-Cobden Club, Fidelity Club, 20th Ward; Young Men's 
Republican Club, 20th Ward, and also Twentieth Ward Republican 
Club; served as Secretary to Civil Service Board; President Wil- 
liam McKinley Building and Loan Association, and President of 
Cobler Club, of Delaware ; appointed Mercantile Appraiser, January 
1902. at which time the Board was reorganized and Mr. Bacharach 
appointed President. 



102 REPUBLICAN CLUB BOOK 

EDWARD T. DAVIS 

LIFE .MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, November 19, 1849; educated in public 
schools, including- Boys' Central High School ; bookkeeper for 
Young*, Moore & Co, and -Harry C. Moore & Co., white goods and 
notions, until 1871 ; clerk in War Department, Washington, having 
charge of Record and Pension Divisions, until 1878, when he entered 
firm of Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists ; upon death 
of Mr. Powers, became financial secretary of Mr. Weightman, the 
largest holder of real estate in Philadelphia; member of Masonic 
fraternities; director of Tradesmen's Trust and Saving Fund Co., 
the Perpetual Fire Insurance Co. ; Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Chicago Electric Wire Co. ; President of the American Fibre Co. • 
Treasurer of the Metropolitan Granite Co., and President of the 
Philadelphia Hotel Association. 



CYRUS S. DETRE 

LIFE MEMBER. 

"Born, Philadelphia, June 26, 1840; graduate Boys' Central High 
School; enlisted October 1, 1861, in 88th Regiment, Pa. Vols.;, 
served three years, becoming Adjutant of Regiment; present at Bat- 
tles of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilder- 
ness, Spottsylvania and Petersburg; engaged in stationery, blank 
book and printing business ; member of the Military Order of Loyal 
Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, the Young Republicans, the 
Masonic Order and former Treasurer Union Republican Club. 



HARRY C. DUNLAP 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, January 8, 1842 ; educated in public schools ; 
served apprenticeship as printer; manager of printing house until 
1880, when he established a business of his own, which has now 
developed into one of the largest Printing and book binding establish- 
ments in Philadelphia, engaging largely in municipal and political 
printing; represented 13th Ward in Common Council for six years; 
member of Masonic fraternities, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias 
and Typographical Union. 



SKETCHES 103 



ISRAEL W. DURHAM 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, October 24, 1856; educated in public 
schools; learned to be brick maker; subsequently entered flouring 
business; in 1885, elected Police Magistrate ; re-elected, 1900; de- 
clined renomination in 1895, and in 1897, elected State Senator. In 
January, 1899, appointed Insurance Commissioner; reappointed in 
May, 1903 ; Quay's lieutenant and recognized leader of Republican 
party in Philadelphia. 

EDWARD P. EVANS. 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born in Piermont, Grafton Co., N. H., July 28, 1842; educated 
in pubilc schools and Barre Academy; enlisted July 30th, 1862; par- 
ticipated in battles of Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North 
Anna River, Hanover Court House, Cold Harbor, being severely 
wounded at the latter place. Served until discharged, July 3, 1865 ; 
graduated from Kimbal Union Academy, June 1866; Trustee of 
Patterson Mission and President of Young Peoples Association 
attached to that church ; has engaged in business in New York, 
Rochester, Texas and Philadelphia ; now in postal service, Phila- 
delphia. 

HARRINGTON FITZGERALD 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, April 5, 1847; cashier for Jay Cooke & Co. 
during refunding of national debt in war days ; business manager of 
the Philadelphia Item for ten years; since editor-in-chief and gen- 
eral manager of the Item; artist of reputation and gold medalist; 
stalwart Republican, but has held no public office; life member Bel- 
mont Cricket Club. 

LEVI GARNER FOUSE 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born at Clover Creek, Blair County, Pa., Oct. 21, 1850; academic 
education, Blair County; attended Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, 
and Mercersburg College, Pa. ; entered commercial life and took up 
insurance; in 1878 organized the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, which closed its first quarter century with one hundred 
millions of insurance in force, and has been its President from the 
beginning. Is an authority on insurance; member of American 
Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Statistical So- 



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ciety, the Powelton Club; Country Club of Atlantic City, the Over- 
brook Golf Club; Superintendent of Northminster (Presbyterian) 
Bible School ; member of Superintendents' Association and the Social 
Union. 

STEPHEN GREENE 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Chenango county, New York, in 1831 ; educated, Lancas- 
ter county, Penna., Public Schools ; learned trade of printer ; in 1849 
removed to Philadelphia, and subsequently engaged in business for 
himself, establishing a very large and successful printing house; 
liberal supporter of party, but has held no public office. 

EDMUND B. HARDENBERGH 

LIFE MEMBER 

Born, Wilsonville, Wayne county, Pa., July 31, 1846; educated 
in public schools and in Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. ; employed by Erie R. R. as conductor and traveling instructor 
for twenty-five years ; delegate to several State conventions and to 
Republican National Convention of 1896; member of State House 
of Representatives, 1885-1887; of Senate, in 1894; re-elected, 1898; 
elected Auditor General of State in November, 1900. 

HARRY HUNTER 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born in Tenth Ward, Philadelphia, in 1846; educated in public 
schools; was a member of Republican City Committee for twenty 
years ; Republican leader Third Ward for thirty years and upwards ; 
elected to Select Council in 1893, and re-elected in 1896; before that, 
Mercantile Appraiser; in 1904, appointed Real Estate Assessor; 
delegate twenty-seven times to Republican State Conventions, and 
delegate to National Convention for Chester A. Arthur; twice Na- 
tional Alternate. 

JOSEPH M. HUSTON 

LIFE MEMBER 

Born in the Kensington District, Philadelphia; after the com- 
mon schools, he "worked his way" through Princeton ; studied archi- 
tecture with Furness, Evans & Co. ; started in business for himself 
and designed numerous important structures including the Wither- 
spoon building; is architect of the $4,000,000 State Capital Building 
now being erected under his direction at Harrisburg. Mr. Huston 



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is active in the politics of the younger generation, and is popular as 
a speaker. Member of the Union League, Masonic Fraternity, 
Princeton Club, Lincoln Club and other social bodies. 

J. WARNER HUTCHINS 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Montpelier, Vermont, April 25, 1850; educated Vermont 
Academy; came to Philadelphia in 1868; entered jewelry business; 
in March, 1883, established business for himself as dealer in dia- 
monds; since 1 901, wholesale dealer, importing and cutting stones 
for the trade; active in Jewelers' Club, Masonic fraternities and 
Mystic Shrine; member of Union League, Young Republicans, the 
New England Society, the Historical Society, the Philadelphia Yacht 
Club and Vestryman of the P. E. Church of the Nativity. 

JOHN KELLEY 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born in Philadelphia ; educated in the common schools ; gradu- 
ated from the Boys' High School ; employed in various capacities 
by the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company; elected to Com- 
mon Council, Philadelphia, resigning in 1888 to become Deputy De- 
linquent Tax Collector; was Supervising Auditor in the Department 
of Receiver of Taxes for several years until appointed Second Assist- 
ant Receiving Teller in Department of City Treasurer ; appointed 
Secretary of the State League of Republican Clubs at Harrisburg- 
Convention; been active since as Financial Secretary of the Union 
Republican Club, Secretary of Allied Republican Clubs and Secretary 
of the State League. 



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MURDOCH KENDRICK 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, October 4, 1873; graduate University of 
Pennsylvania, 1893, and as Bachelor of Laws, 1896; Chief Clerk 
City Treasurer, 1901 ; Assistant District Attorney, 1902 ; reap- 
pointed, 1903 ; member of Masonic fraternities, Union League, Five 
O'Clock Club, University Club, Penn Club, Pen and Pencil Club, 
Hamilton Club, Mask and Wig Club, Lincoln Club, Philadelphia 
Country Club and Young Republicans. 

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DANIEL' FRANKLIN LAFEAN 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, York county.. Penna., February 7, 1861 ; educated public 
schools of York; manufacturer for twenty years and President Se- 
curity Title and Trust Company, of York ; Director of Gettysburg 
College and Trustee of Gettysburg Seminary. Member of the 58th 
Congress, being elected in a Democratic district. 

DAVID H. LANE 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, July 28, 1839, educated in Public Schools, 
graduating from Boys' Central High School. Clerk in Receiver of 
Taxes Office, i860; Chief Clerk to Assessor of Internal Revenue, 
1862; resigned in 1865, when Andrew Johnson became President; 
Clerk of State Senate, 1871 ; after three attempts had F. Theodore 
Walton nominated and elected Recorder of Deeds and became his 
Chief Clerk. In 1876 succeeded Walton. Upon the expiration of his 
term was appointed Recorder of the city. Member of Board of Gas 
Trustees, 1881, until Board dissolved. Twice enlisted for defense 
of State, and member of Post 2, G. A. R. Active as ward leader, and 
counsellor of Republican City organization. 

JOHN M. MACK, 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Progressive Philadelphia!! ; first attracted public attention de- 
veloping Southern Electric Light Company; figured in development 
of electric lighting and other municipal utilities ; prominent as organ- 
izer of financial interests ; director of Philadelphia Rapid Transit 
Company, Mack Paving Company and other large corporations. 
Mr. Mack resides at Torresdale, is President of the Morelton Club 
and socially popular. 

JAMES P. McNICHOL 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, 1864; educated in public schools and 
Pierce's Business College; entered firm of W. J. McNichol Brothers, 
contractors, subsequently James P. McNichol & Brother, which held 
important cit) contracts, chiefly for paving and for widening of Dela- 
ware avenue and foi filtration plant; succeeded Win. R. Leeds as 
Republican leader 10th Ward; served one term and part of second 
as member Of Select Council, bill resigned in January, K)02; active 
member of various political clubs, including the Leeds Association, 
of the [Oth Ward. 



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JOHN II. MICHENER 

i.ifk MEMBER. 

I. H. Michener & Co., Philadelphia merchants; member of the 
Board of Gty Trusts, controlling the Girard College and other bene- 
factions of Stephen Girard; President of the famous Bank <>t North 

rica. Mr. Michener has long been identified with Philadelphia's 
commercial progress and stands prominent among its citizens. 

B( >IES PENROSE 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, November i, [860; graduated from Har- 
vard College, in e88i ; read law with Wayne MacVeagh and George 

Tucker Bispham; admitted to Bar in 1883; elected to State Senate 
in 1880; re-elected. 1890; President pro tern, of Senate, 1889; re- 
elected. 1891 ; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1900; 
Chairman of Republican State Committee, 1903-04; elected United 
States Senator, 1897; re-elected, 1903, for term expiring March 3, 
1909; member of Republican National Committee. 

HORACE PETTIT 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born in Philadelphia, June 27, i860; academic and college edu- 
cation; graduated from the Law I )epartment of the University of 
Pennsylvania and now practicing in the City of Philadelphia. 
Actively engaged in the politics of Pennsylvania, having been a dele- 

from Montgomery County to Republican Convention that nomi- 
nated Matthew Stanley Quay for State Treasurer and chosen to 

d Quay's nomination. During the last week of the McKinley 
campaign he spoke for the National Committee in New York City. 
Member ol the Union League. Lawyers' Club, University Club, Lin- 
coln Club and other well-known social organizations of Philadelphia. 

TIK MAS P< fiTTER, JR. 

LIFF MEMBER. 

Born in Philadelphia. Member of firm of Thomas Potter, S 
& Company, and brother of ex-Minister to Italy William Potter: 
Quartermaster General on staffs of (k>vernors Hastings, Stone and 
Pennypacker; member of Union League and man) social organi- 
zations. 



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J. MARTIN ROMMEL 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, September 22, 1867; educated in public 
schools ; graduated College Department University of Pennsylvania, 
in 1886; Law Department, 1888; member of Board of Civil Service 
Examiners under Mayor Stuart; member of Union League, the His- 
torical Society of Pennsylvania, the Young Republicans, the Harrison 
Club of the 15th Ward, the Masonic Fraternity, 32d degree, the Lin- 
coln Club, the Five O'Clock Club and the Lawyers' Club; member 
of Executive Committee from Pennsylvania, National Republican 
League. 

A. S. L. SHIELDS 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born on farm near Coatesville, Pa., September 2J, 1850; edu- 
cated at Coatesville Academy.. Chester Military Academy and Tay- 
lor's Academy, Wilmington, Del. ; studied law with the late Judge 
Joseph T. Pratt and succeeded to his practice; very successful in 
career at bar; Chairman of Republican City Committee in 1881 and 
^882 ; frequently called upon to serve as chairman of city conven- 
tions ; former President Union Republican Club. 

JACOB SINGER 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born at Staunton, Va., October 22, i860; educated in public 
schools of Philadelphia, graduating from Boys' Central High School, 
in 1877; attended Law School, University of Pennsylvania, and 
graduated 1881 ; elected Register of Wills in 1900; Vice President 
Central High School Alumni ; member Union Republican Club, 
Young Republicans, Hamilton Club, of West Philadelphia, Law As- 
sociation, Lawyers' Club and Mercantile Club. 

THEODORE BUEHLER STULB 

LIFE AlEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, May 30, 1853; educated at Hill School, 
Pottstown, Pa., and the George Eastburn Academy, Philadelphia; 
entered business at 17 years of age in auction house; in 1872, ap- 
pointed clerk in Citizens' Bank: resigned in 1873 to engage with his 
father as varnish manufacturer (C. Schrack & Co.) ; elected County 
Commissioner in 1887; re-elected, 1890; Health Officer, 1895; re- 
signed, 1898; member of State House of Representatives, 1899 and 
1901 ; re-elected. 1902. 



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JOSEPH T. TAYLOR 

LIFE MEMBER 

Member of the Philadelphia Bar; for some years Secretary of 
the Thirty-second Ward Republican Club; also represented the 
Thirty-second Ward in Common Council; served for several years 
as Assistant City Solicitor, having special charge of tax liens ; mem- 
ber of ward clubs and fraternal societies, and acting secretary Board 
of Directors of Union Republican Club. 

JOHN R. WIGGINS 

LIFE MEMBER. 

Born, Philadelphia, August 10, 1864; educated in public 
schools; at age of 21, became builder on his own account, and was 
highly successful; officer of the Master Builders' Exchange; Vice 
President Union Republican Club and President of the State League 
of Republican Qubs. Elected Treasurer National Republican 
League at St. Paul, Minn., 1900, for two years' term. Has held 
no public office, except that of School Director in 29th Ward ; mem- 
ber of Art Club, Columbia Club and Young Republicans. 



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Story of the Clubs: page 

National Republican League 9 

Constitution of the National Republican League 12 

The California Plan 16 

Pennsylvania State League of Republican Clubs 18 

Roster State League of Republican Clubs 20 

The Allied Republican Clubs 25 

Union Republican Club 27 

Roster Union Republican Club 35 

Story of the Party: 

Brief History of the Republican Party 43 

Republican Platforms 44 

Growth of the Party in Pennsylvania 56 

Growth of the Party in Philadelphia 57 

Presidential Elections 59 

W hat the States have done since 1900. 70 

Roosevelt's Address to the League 76 

President McKinley's last speech 81 

Assassination of President McKinley 85 

President Roosevelt's Pledge 86 

The young man in Politics 87 

Call of the Republican Convention of 1904 90 

Death of Chairman Hanna 9I 

Governors of Pennsylvania 92 

United States Senators from Pennsylvania 92 

Popular Vote for President, 1896 94 

Popular Vote for President, 1900 95 

Official Vote of Pennsylvania for Presidential Electors, 1900 96 

Philadelphia Banking Institutions 98 

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